Re: Trouble booting CF card in PCMCIA port from GRUB2

[Urja Rannikko]

Hi,

> grub> ls
> (ata0) (ata0,1) (ata0,2) (ata0,3)
>
> As you see, only ata0 is shown, which is the target laptop's harddrive.
>  The PCMCIA slot or the card in it isn't shown!

The problem is that grub2 would need a driver for the PCMCIA host
controller - that would enable the PCMCIA CF-card to be seen by the
ata driver (AFAIK).
I'm thinking that you have 3 options:
- boy a laptop IDE<->CF adapter and put the CF card to where the
laptop's main hard disk is (install grub2 on the CF)
- use linux+kexec (as already said)
- or wait for somebody to write (or write it yourself) a PCMCIA
subsystem for grub2