Phillip,
After my last response I was able to get it to boot from /dev/mmcblk0p1
using Ubuntu 10.10. I am not sure why it did not work at first, but maybe my
explaining what I did may help you determine why.
The following is what I did.
1. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a USB thumb drive, and placed the Grub loader
on the MBR. The boot menu did
display OK and I was able to boot Ubuntu 10.10 from the drive OK. The
menu did show the previous version
of Ubuntu on /dev/mmcblk0p1 but I was never able to get it to boot.
2. After I received your note requesting a test of using Ubuntu 10.10, I
installed Ubuntu 10.10 on
/dev/mmcblk0p1 and placed the grub loader on the /dev/sdb which is the MBR
of my thumb drive from step 1.
This was to ensure that the Grub menu would be updated for this version of
Ubuntu.
3. I tried booting from the thumb drive in step 1 but the Grub menu never
displayed. Instead I got the message
I reported in my previous note and was place in the Grub rescue screen.
4. After not being able to restore the MBR, I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 to the
USB thumb drive and placed the
grub loader on the MBR as I had done in step 1.
5. When I booted from the thumb drive, the Grub menu displayed included
both the system installed in step 4 and step 2. I am now able to select
either system and they boot OK.
I hope the above sequence better explains what I did and what went wrong. I am
not sure why what happened in step 4 did not happen in step 2 as far as setting
up the Grub menu.
Regards,
Robert.
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 00:25:48 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bug 505396] Re: /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS
> drive
>
> ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => New
>
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> /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505396
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> Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu: New
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubiquity
>
> I was in the process of installing Ubuntu 9.04 to a 16GB SDHC card. The
> install was to put the Grub boot loader on a 4GB USB thumb drive that has
> Ubuntu 9.10. The grub install failed, I do not know why. I have tried
> installing Ubuntu 9.10 on the SDHC card but that fails with portions of the
> file system missing (eg nothing in the proc folder or incomplete dev folder).
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
> MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release amd64 (20090420.1)
> Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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