Boot from sd card?

Discussion in 'Acer Aspire One' started by purinaone, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. purinaone

    purinaone

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    I know the aspire one can boot from usb but can it boot from sd card? Also i noticed in the bios there is an ide 1 and 0, o being the ssdbut what is 1?

    thanks for the help
     
    purinaone, Aug 22, 2008
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    Unless I misread the info' booting direct from an sd card = no, it is not seen by the bios at boot time.
     
    Sid, Aug 23, 2008
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    No, the current bios cannot boot from sd cards.

    Pretty poor imho :(
     
    sideways, Aug 23, 2008
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    Maybe we'll see this in a BIOS update in the future, unless it's a technical hardware issue. I've just emailled their tech team about this and it says "we aim to have a reply in 2 working days"
     
    Ryan, Aug 23, 2008
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    Ok thanks, hope they mention the possibility of a bios update to resolve the issue :D, I like to boot into backtrack, it would be alot neater to use sd rther than pen drive
     
    purinaone, Aug 23, 2008
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    OMG - this is a big fault with the aspire one nobody mentioned - as my Assus eee, does so well , allowing me to have all my Os's on SD cards - I naturally assumed the One would do so too -given it has two card readers I naturally thought it would. To discover it dosen't having bought one is a blow.
     
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    It's a shame that Acer did not include the feature in Aspire One.
    Hope that there will be an upgrade in the bios that will be able to allow us to boot from sd cards like Asus.

    :?:
     
    atomic, Aug 25, 2008
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