Peppermint 9 on Asus notebook SD Drive get GNU GRUB ver 2.02 prompt [ABANDONED]

[sdgengineer]

Greetings

I have this Asus TP2000s with Win 10 on it.  the small hard drive is full, but it has an SD card slot also.  So I tried installing Peppermint 9 on the SD card.  I partitioned the 32 GB  SD card as ext 4.  installed peppermint on it, and when I rebooted  I got a blank screen with a flashing cursor.   So I rebooted and hit the escape key, and brouht up a bios boot menu.  I booted successfully on windows 10, a good thing.  But when I selected ubuntu, I get a grub prompt  Version 2.02.  with a grub> prompt

I did go into the bios and change the boot order  for windows first.  but if I hit esc I can change which device boots first.  I was asked when I installed peppermint when I wanted the grub menu, and I accepted the default which is on the windows drive. 
I did an ls and got the following response.

(hd0) (hd0,gpt4) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1)


What command should I use to launch peppermint or can I do this, or do I need to start over?

Thanks

[murraymint]

Did you actually boot the Peppermint live USB on that machine? If so, can you give us the output of

Code: [Select]

inxi -Fz

[sdgengineer]

Yes, thanks for your quick response

her is the result of  that command:
System:    Host: peppermint Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Nine
Machine:   Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: E205SA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E205SA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: E205SA.303 date: 06/14/2017
Battery    BAT0: charge: 36.6 Wh 99.3% condition: 36.9/38.0 Wh (97%)
CPU:       Dual core Intel Celeron N3060 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2480 MHz 1: 555 MHz 2: 765 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@59.99hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Audio:     Card Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series High Def. Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-23-generic
Network:   Card: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: ath10k_pci
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2.0GB (Used Error!)
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 31.3GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sda model: USB_DISK size: 2.0GB
           ID-3: /dev/mmcblk1 model: N/A size: 32.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.9G used: 68M (4%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram0
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 1.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0C mobo: 0.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 25500
Info:      Processes: 171 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 667.9/3849.6MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56


The /dev/mmcblk0 is the windows drive.

[murraymint]

(hd0) (hd0,gpt4) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1)

That looks like your SD card is not being seen at the time of boot, which could mean no drivers are loaded for the card reader.

EDIT: I'm not sure though. Did you have a USB drive plugged in when you got that?

[sdgengineer]

Yes,   I Had the usb installed it with when I ran it.  Let me rerun it after I remove the USB drive I used to install it.

here is the result with the install USB drive removed:

inxi -Fz
System:    Host: peppermint Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Nine
Machine:   Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: E205SA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E205SA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: E205SA.303 date: 06/14/2017
Battery    BAT0: charge: 36.6 Wh 99.3% condition: 36.9/38.0 Wh (97%)
CPU:       Dual core Intel Celeron N3060 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2480 MHz 1: 1006 MHz 2: 500 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@59.99hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Audio:     Card Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series High Def. Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-23-generic
Network:   Card: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: ath10k_pci
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: NA (-)
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 31.3GB
           ID-2: /dev/mmcblk1 model: N/A size: 32.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.9G used: 74M (4%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram0
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 1.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0C mobo: 0.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 25500
Info:      Processes: 168 Uptime: 38 min Memory: 687.6/3849.6MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

[murraymint]

I meant the "ls" when you got the GRUB prompt.

It might be worth reading the tips here, this might have a similar BIOS:

http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t200-alternate-os-s-development/49427-tp200sa-linux-success.html

[sdgengineer]

Sorry!   yes I had the USB drive removed when I got the result of the ls command.  I see there is no hd1 listed.  Only the Win 10 Hard Drive.  I may not be able to dual boot.

I will read the thread you mentioned...Thanks.

[murraymint]

Yes, some devices just can't boot from an external SD. I'd suggest installing Peppermint to the fastest USB drive you can use.

There might be a different boot manager you could use but only if it includes the drivers for the SD reader. I don't know.

[sdgengineer]

OK Based on everything I have read I can't dual boot this device. I have gone back to Win 10,  I appreciate the effort murraymint went to research this issue, Even though I have an SD card with a large drive, the BIOS doesn't load it at startup.    .    I will continue to research if there is some way to load it from an SD card.  perhaps a way to load it as a persistent image. My question to the forum is should I mark this solved?

Thanks for a great forum. 

[murraymint]

You can dual boot via USB can't you? Peppermint can be fully installed to a USB stick/SSD/hard drive.

I wouldn't mark it solved but something like [ABANDONED] has been used before.

[sdgengineer]

will do

[murraymint]

There might be a different boot manager you could use

Have a look here for an idea of what I was talking about:

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/f6e24cea/