On 2017-04-17, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > Oddly, this ancient laptop (Acer) has a slot that makes the SD card > look like a /dev/sdX disk, and the BIOS is happy to boot from it.
I have an Acer X1430 with an internal "Multi-in-1 Media Card Reader" for which an SD card inserted into the reader is recognized by the kernel as as a /dev/sdX disk. I would be happy to trade with the OP if he would be willing to come out of retirement. -;) > Cheers, > David. > > -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.