Porteus to Micro-SD-CARD boot - easy!
Posted: 10 Jun 2019, 01:29
Got a few machines that will boot from a micro-SD-card, along with all the other options.
Wanted to use USB iso burners, but of course they don't recognize the micro-sd-cards, which usually show up as mmcblk devices.
Solution: Just temporarily use a USB <> SD-card adapter to do the burn.
Using a little Sabrent model adapter, i had no problem burning Porteus using it's own usb-tools. I tried it directly from a mounted iso and running either the bash shell installer, or the windows installer. Once I was done I had no further need for the adapter, and used the machine's own sd-card slot to boot from.
And of course once you have Porteus booted by hook or by crook, you can use the Live-USB-Creator along with the usb<>sd card adapter and go that way.
A few of the Intel Computesticks allow for booting from the micro-sd-card slot, (they actually show up as hard drives in the bios), and this little adapter trick made doing a bootable sd-card very easy. Trick might come in handy if you are putting Porteus on mini-pc's and other small hardware.
Needless to say, I'm watching my sd-card writes by using either other external storage, or if using a savefile, using the EXIT: cheatcode. I use large cards just to provide more cells for wear-leveling, and most are tested with the Linux F3 or Windows H2WTEST utility to help spot cheats, counterfeits and so forth.
Pretty stoked it was so easy with the built-in USB tools and an adapter to fool it into thinking an mmcblk device was an sdX.
Wanted to use USB iso burners, but of course they don't recognize the micro-sd-cards, which usually show up as mmcblk devices.
Solution: Just temporarily use a USB <> SD-card adapter to do the burn.
Using a little Sabrent model adapter, i had no problem burning Porteus using it's own usb-tools. I tried it directly from a mounted iso and running either the bash shell installer, or the windows installer. Once I was done I had no further need for the adapter, and used the machine's own sd-card slot to boot from.
And of course once you have Porteus booted by hook or by crook, you can use the Live-USB-Creator along with the usb<>sd card adapter and go that way.
A few of the Intel Computesticks allow for booting from the micro-sd-card slot, (they actually show up as hard drives in the bios), and this little adapter trick made doing a bootable sd-card very easy. Trick might come in handy if you are putting Porteus on mini-pc's and other small hardware.
Needless to say, I'm watching my sd-card writes by using either other external storage, or if using a savefile, using the EXIT: cheatcode. I use large cards just to provide more cells for wear-leveling, and most are tested with the Linux F3 or Windows H2WTEST utility to help spot cheats, counterfeits and so forth.
Pretty stoked it was so easy with the built-in USB tools and an adapter to fool it into thinking an mmcblk device was an sdX.