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Size mini SD card
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:52 pm
by croys
Will fit-pc 2 support a size larger than an 8GB mini SD card to boot from?
Re: Size mini SD card
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:10 am
by yogev_ezra
SDHC is supported in latest BIOS (just upgrade your BIOS if you have old one).
SDHC size limit is 32GB if I am not mistaken.
But remember that not every OS can boot from SD, regardless of the size.
Re: Size mini SD card
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:57 pm
by derek
remember that not every OS can boot from SD
Can Ubuntu (9.1) boot from SD?
Re: Size mini SD card
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:28 pm
by croys
Thanks for the feedback. I believe Windows 7 will boot from an SD card, as long as it's made bootable.
Re: Size mini SD card
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:39 pm
by yogev_ezra
Ubuntu can boot from SD if you use a boot loader with SD driver in stage 1 so that it can load stage 2. If you install Ubuntu on SD but do not add the SD driver as part of stage 1 loader, it will not continue loading and will stuck after stage 1 when it tries to find the SD card and cannot find it (because the SD driver is not present).
No idea whether Windows 7 can boot from SD, but XP definitely cannot.