Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd
On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thus spoketh Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +0000:
>
>> On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
>>
>>> So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these
>>> hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the
>>> initrd, *before* it tries to mount / from a device which has not yet
>>> been initialized.
>>
>> You didn't respond to my final two questions, Contrary to my usual
>> practice I'll provide their probable outcomes. 'ls -l' would not have
>> shown the CF card. 'search --label CFCARD' would have said 'no such
>> device'.
>
> 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.
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