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bug #24181: grub-install fails to recognize SD/MMC cards on Linux (/dev/mmcblkN)

Submitted by:  Harald Welte <laforge>
Submitted on:  Mon 01 Sep 2008 03:21:10 PM UTC  
 
Category: InstallationSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Harald Welte
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: svn
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Mon 01 Sep 2008 07:17:31 PM UTC, comment #1:

Oh as I replied to your Debian Report I didn't see that you did indeed forward this.
But well this is about grub-legacy which is not support at all now.
grub2 is teh future now and in fact it should even support these devices
taken from util/biosdisk.c

/* If this is a MultiMediaCard (MMC). */
if (strncmp ("mmcblk", p, sizeof ("mmcblk") - 1) == 0)

So closing the report, feel free to reopen in case it does indeed not work with current grub2 (either upstream SVN or debian lenny should be recent enough.)

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke>
Project Member
Mon 01 Sep 2008 03:21:10 PM UTC, original submission:

When grub-install is invoked to install the grub bootloader onto a SD/MMC card, it fails because the grub-install script does not include regular expressions for linux SD/MMC devices called /dev/mmcblkN

The 'boot from SD card' feature is already present in some currently shipping hardware like some ASUS eeePC models. Industry rumours say that multiple BIOS vendors are adding support for this, as well as a certain well-known manufacturer of proprietary operating systems. This is thus bound to become a standard feature just like booting from USB has.

It would be great to have boot-from-SD support in grub and the major distributions before those devices become more popular :)

The following patch (against grub svn) adresses this issue:

Harald Welte <laforge>

 

Attached Files
file #16416:  grub-install-sdmmc.patch added by laforge (711B - text/x-diff - proposed fix)

 

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