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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader |
| Date | 2017-05-05 15:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tDKZX-1Q5-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tDCzn-4Hv-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <tDCzn-4Hv-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <tDHIJ-8ec-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote:
>
>> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at
>
> It should be stressed that the HOWTO is applicable only to devices on
> the USB bus.
>
>> Thanks a lot for this document because it hits a problem I found many
>> months ago without solution for me. I would like to use my internal card
>> reader (Lenovo X240) to boot in tails (https://tails.boum.org)
>
> I rarely dabble in hardware-related things, so a mistake or two could
> creep into what follows.
>
>> My reader appears this way:
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> ~ $ lsusb
>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader
>> ====================================================================
>
> The Lenovo X240 has a Smart Card reader and a 4-in-1 card reader (MMC,
> SD, SDHC, SDXC). The Smart Card reader is on the USB bus. I have never
> used one but it appears to have something to do with identity cards.
> GRUB does not detect it with nativedisk so booting from it is not
> possible.
>
>> The sd card with tails on appears this way:
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> leandro@tricheco:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
>>
>> Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.29.2).
>> Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
>> Be careful before using the write command.
>>
>> Command (m for help): p
>> Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7,4 GiB, 7969177600 bytes, 15564800 sectors
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disklabel type: gpt
>> Disk identifier: F12D15CF-2FC3-4852-8226-9D4F7E625B29
>>
>> Device Start End Sectors Size Type
>> /dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 5122047 5120000 2,5G EFI System
>> ====================================================================
>
> This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot
> from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should
> display the chip used; one from Ricoh?
>
> GRUB doesn't see anything on this bus (it has no drivers for the device),
> so booting from it is not possible.
>
>> Following your document I edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom adding these
>> lines:
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> menuentry 'Tails on CF card' {
>> insmod part_msdos
>> insmod ext2
>> echo "Running nativedisk command. Please wait."
>> nativedisk
>> search --label --set=root TAILS
>> linux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=TAILS ro
>> initrd /initrd.img
>> }
>> ====================================================================
>>
>> But it is not working.
>>
>> If I give the "nativedisk" command in grub command line I get only
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> (ahci0)
>> ====================================================================
>>
>> Where am I wrong?
>
> I think you have possibly not appreciated the distinction between a card
> reader on a USB bus and one on a PCI bus. The first should be visible to
> GRUB and nativedisk (but, as you have seen, isn't always). The second is
> never visible to GRUB.
>
Not true.
On my Lenovo T510 laptop I have
root@march-9-Jessie:/home/richard# ls /dev/mm*
/dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /dev/mmcblk0p5
Although my BIOS will not boot from /dev/mmcblk0, the GRUB resident on
/dev/sda1 has no trouble finding Debian on /dev/mmcblk0p1.
root@march-9-Jessie:/home/richard# lspci -tv
-+-[0000:ff]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath
Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
| +-00.1 Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath
Architecture System Address Decoder
| +-02.0 Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0
| +-02.1 Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor
QPI Physical 0
| +-02.2 Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor
Reserved
| \-02.3 Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor
Reserved
\-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller
+-02.0 Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated
Graphics Controller
+-16.0 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
HECI Controller
+-19.0 Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
+-1a.0 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
+-1b.0 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
High Definition Audio
+-1c.0-[02]--
+-1c.1-[03]----00.0 Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N
6200
+-1c.3-[05-0c]----00.0 Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720202
USB 3.0 Host Controller
+-1c.4-[0d]--+-00.0 Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
| +-00.1 Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231
/ R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller]
| \-00.3 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394
Controller
+-1d.0 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
+-1e.0-[0e]--
+-1f.0 Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC
Interface Controller
+-1f.2 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6
port SATA AHCI Controller
+-1f.3 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
SMBus Controller
\-1f.6 Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
Thermal Subsystem
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Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Leandro Noferini <lnoferin@cybervalley.org> - 2017-05-05 06:00 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 11:30 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-05-05 14:50 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 19:40 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-05-05 20:00 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 20:40 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 20:40 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-05 15:00 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 16:10 +0200
Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-05 17:00 +0200
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