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    booting from card reader possible?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by adante, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. adante

    adante Notebook Geek

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    hi folks.

    I was happily enjoying my brand new t61p when less than 2 weeks in the hard disk failed catastrophically :confused:

    Support have been kind enough to send out another drive without requiring me to return the whole laptop. In the meantime I have been running a linux livecd with an 8g sdhc card for a persistence file.

    Anyway now I'm wondering if I could do away with the livecd and boot directly from the sd card?

    I took a look in the bios - there are three ATA HDDx listings (I presume main drive, ultrabay and... ??) and a USB HDD. Unfortunately none of these seem to be the SD card.

    After booting from the livecd I can mount the SD card and interact with it, however grub does not recognize the SD card after a bios probe

    So alas it does not seem possible, but I thought I would doublecheck here incase anybody knew otherwise.
     
    adante, Jun 26, 2008
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    It shouldn't take that long to get new drive and at least you go a working machine. I once called in the afternoon about a keyboard that failed. The replacement was at my door at 9:00AM the next day. I moved this to the Linux forum where I think you'll get more help.
     
    ZaZ, Jun 26, 2008
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  3. steve p

    steve p Notebook Evangelist

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    A USB drive will be you best bet (make sure you list it in the boot order in the BIOS). But as ZaZ said it's probably going to be just a day or two before your new drive arrives.
     
    steve p, Jun 27, 2008
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