<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Tim Champion <<a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">timchampion@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I picked up a high speed (22mb/s) 8GB SDHC card from amazon for $60<br>
> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XZCIX4" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XZCIX4</a><br>
> Its $68 now. :( Comes with a USB card reader, and a nice zipper pouch.<br>
<br>
</div>I picked up the 15mb/s 8g at bestbuy for $50. I thought mine was<br>
screaming fast, I didn't realize they could go faster. Honestly, it<br>
feels like this card is faster than the hard drive, but maybe that's<br>
because its relatively empty.</blockquote><div><br>Speaking of prices, <a href="http://slickdeals.net">slickdeals.net</a> FTW:<br>(all 8GB, all in the mid-$20 range)<br><br>SD:<br><a href="http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=890108">http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=890108</a><br>
<a href="http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888564">http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888564</a><br><br>Micro-SD:<br><a href="http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888538">http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888538</a><br>
<br>fantastic site for components/whatnot.<br><br>-B<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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> I'm still trying to figure out how to boot Ubuntu from it on my internal<br>
> card reader on my Dell D420. The BIOS doesn't see it, so from what I've<br>
> gathered so far, I have to load up a linux kernel from the hard drive first,<br>
> and then transfer to the SD card. I can get it to boot using the included<br>
> USB card reader, but I think booting from the card slot is beyond my skilz.<br>
<br>
</div>I had the same prob. :-( I even download a bios update for my laptop<br>
to see if that helped. It said something about "now enable booting<br>
from 4G flash drives" but I don't think its even trying the sd card.<br>
I'm ok with putting /boot and /home on the hdd (except maybe mapping<br>
firefox cache dir and etc to the flash drive) but the next thing I<br>
want to figure out is at what point in the boot process the sd card<br>
gets recognized (to ensure things will be ok if the root partition is<br>
on it).<br>
<br>
Also I'm curious to know if grub can recognize the sd card - my<br>
searching has only shown results for people who want to install grub<br>
onto a flash drive. I ran out of time last night before figuring it<br>
out.<br>
<br>
Is there a way to get a list of recognized drives from grub?<br>
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