Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> 
unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100:

> On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote:
(...)
> > 
> > I wrote that the the BIOS doesn't know about the CF card, so I
> > thought it is obvious that grub won't know about it either ;)
> 
> That's incorrect - the BIOS doesn't have any bearing on whether GRUB can
> boot a device.
> 

That is interesting, I didn't know that, but how does grub then know about
the device when the BIOS doesn't? 

Regards

Michael



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