[Cialug] SDHC support

[Brandon Griffis]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I picked up a high speed (22mb/s) 8GB SDHC card from amazon for $60
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XZCIX4
> > Its $68 now. :(  Comes with a USB card reader, and a nice zipper pouch.
>
> I picked up the 15mb/s 8g at bestbuy for $50. I thought mine was
> screaming fast, I didn't realize they could go faster. Honestly, it
> feels like this card is faster than the hard drive, but maybe that's
> because its relatively empty.


Speaking of prices, slickdeals.net FTW:
(all 8GB, all in the mid-$20 range)

SD:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=890108
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888564

Micro-SD:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=888538

fantastic site for components/whatnot.

-B



>
>
> > I'm still trying to figure out how to boot Ubuntu from it on my internal
> > card reader on my Dell D420.  The BIOS doesn't see it, so from what I've
> > gathered so far, I have to load up a linux kernel from the hard drive
> first,
> > and then transfer to the SD card.  I can get it to boot using the
> included
> > USB card reader, but I think booting from the card slot is beyond my
> skilz.
>
> I had the same prob. :-( I even download a bios update for my laptop
> to see if that helped. It said something about "now enable booting
> from 4G flash drives" but I don't think its even trying the sd card.
> I'm ok with putting /boot and /home on the hdd (except maybe mapping
> firefox cache dir and etc to the flash drive) but the next thing I
> want to figure out is at what point in the boot process the sd card
> gets recognized (to ensure things will be ok if the root partition is
> on it).
>
> Also I'm curious to know if grub can recognize the sd card - my
> searching has only shown results for people who want to install grub
> onto a flash drive. I ran out of time last night before figuring it
> out.
>
> Is there a way to get a list of recognized drives from grub?
>
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
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