Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

[Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net>]

On 26/09/2015 17:58, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2015-09-26 at 12:42, Ron Leach wrote:
>
> > I see:
> >
> > SD host controller Intel .. MIPI-HSI controller [8086:0f50]
> > Subsystem HP company device [103c:8023]
> > Kernel driver: sdhci-pci
>
> This is not a SATA/etc. controller; it appears to be an SD-card
> controller.

Very possibly; the machine has a separate SD card slot.

The HD is solid state, I think it's referred to as an SSD.


I've loaded the basic (non graphical) Jessie 8.2 Live CDimage on a USB 
stick.

Sadly, this doesn't contain mc, so using the basic command line in 
/dev I do see a number of (possibly) relevant entries:

mmcblk0  ; note the 0, there is no entry without a digit
mmcblk0boot0
mmcblk0boot1
mmcblk0p1
mmcblk0p2
mmcblk0p3
mmcblk0p4

as well as

sda
sda1 ; being the Live USB image

The 'boot' part of the name mmcblk0 makes me wonder if this is a 
device that Debian names 'mmcblk0'.  Is this a clue?


> At a glance based on descriptions so far, it looks as if the UEFI is not
> passing the existence of the hard drives on to the OS, for whatever reason.
>
> Could you provide the full 'lspci -nnk' output, just in case there's a
> detail that's not being noticed as relevant?

I'll have a try at doing this.  The m/c isn't networked, but I'll put 
an SD card in and see if I can copy the full output onto that, and 
then post it.

regards, Ron