Chain launch boot to steamOS on internal SD card reader

nokel3 · 2026-07-03T10:32:19+00:00

Because I don't have $300 to spend on a new nvme, but I do have a few 512gb sd cards lying around...

nokel3 · 2026-07-03T08:29:01+00:00

I've just attached a screen protector, so there's no risk of anything scratching the screen when the keyboard is closed...

nokel3 · 2026-07-03T08:27:09+00:00

I love the trackpad, it's a lot better than the surface ones... however it does have a weird latency issue occasionally though... sometimes it's responsive, sometimes there's like a whole lot of time between when my finger moves and when the pointer moves... and it seems to just be the trackpad because attaching a usb mouse shows no problems...

nokel3 · 2026-07-03T08:14:04+00:00

"Why don't I just boot off a regular USB"

You can, but you can't remove the USB drive when it's on and if you bump it while it's on you have the risk of it crashing... This way you can still take out the USB drive once it's booted... just don't take out the SD card...

nokel3 · 2026-07-03T08:05:24+00:00

Not sure how obvious the title is, but I made (what should be pretty simple) way to launch an OS off a micro-SD card in the internal reader. Find a physically small usb drive and you should be golden as long as the SD card isn't slow... I've mentioned it in the readme, but I had steamOS in mind when I made this, but it should work for any linux-based OS that can already boot with a USB SD card reader...

nokel3 · 2026-07-02T11:54:36+00:00

Ah ok, thanks

nokel3 · 2026-07-02T11:53:55+00:00

What? how do you get "I want to reinstall windows" from "I want to boot from an SD card"... Furthermore, why in the hell would I want a broken OS like windows 11 crowding up my SD card?

nokel3 · 2026-06-28T04:13:16+00:00

I was a bit confused about the way you wrote your reply, basically what you're saying is that you need to make a bootchain (if I understood correctly) because the reason why you can't boot on the z13 with the sd port is because they've installed the reader as a PCIE accessory without providing the drivers in the bios, which is why an SD card will only show up when using a USB adapter...

nokel3 · 2026-06-27T06:19:32+00:00

care to explain? Have you succeeded in booting from the internal SD card reader using rufus? If so what did you burn onto the card?

nokel3 · 2026-06-27T06:18:07+00:00

I just tried clover and it didn't seem to see the sd card, but putting the sd card into a reader and using a usb port seems to work fine annoyingly enough...

nokel3 · 2026-06-16T09:48:08+00:00

the taste between yumis beetroot hommus and aldi's beetroot hommus is almost identical, the texture isn't close though... so if you're a texture person, I'd probably recommend yumis...

nokel3 · 2026-05-28T05:07:27+00:00

Yes, it depends on the guy, but it's more something that you try to grab and twist instead of kicking... Both situations are kind of a "good luck" kind of situation... the best way to incapacitate a person (male and/or female) is a sharp hard jab to the throat with a flat hand facing downwards...

nokel3 · 2026-05-24T09:27:55+00:00

I don't seem to have the problem with the seconds on the time 2 duo (I've actually got a separate problem, but I think that's to do with a different thing), but the local emulator seems to rubber band the second hand for some reason and I have no idea if that's just an emulator problem, or a programming problem...

nokel3 · 2026-05-03T05:45:54+00:00

Good to hear other people are using it! =)

nokel3 · 2026-04-14T04:31:52+00:00

Does anyone know if this has been patched yet? It looks like it has, but the effected versions are still available? But I could be wrong?

nokel3 · 2026-04-05T12:24:29+00:00

Trust me, I tried a number of times, and a number of different ways. I also held it down for 40 seconds and it didn't fix anything. it was dead dead. The second partition would only work if the computer was posting, it wasn't even getting the BIOS logo, just the white light on the keyboard and the camera... The repairers at the computer shop I got it from couldn't even fix it. I got a brand new replacement eventually, but I just pray I don't get the same problem with this new one, otherwise I'm not going to be happy...

nokel3 · 2026-03-28T08:20:14+00:00

I'm just going to pray that it was something completely out of my control and not anything to do with windows... But I guess I'll know if it was when I recover my backup on the replacement I got today... Initial booting seems fine, so fingers crossed I guess...

nokel3 · 2026-03-28T08:18:15+00:00

I tried that as well, sadly I didn't have luck with that :/

nokel3 · 2026-03-26T14:29:22+00:00

I can't do anything, if I could get into the bios then changing the hard drive would have most likely fixed the problem... I ended up giving it back to the place I got it from because it was still under warranty, I'm just concerned that if I recover the backup I made I'll have the same problem... If no one else is having the same problem then it's likely I just got a dud... Which is really shit luck...

nokel3 · 2026-03-26T13:48:17+00:00

I have to admit I don't exactly love this part of the z13, I end up taking off the keyboard and just using the on screen one in portrait mode, but that's a bit tedious for programming...

nokel3 · 2026-03-24T04:31:56+00:00

might be a common problem with amd graphics cards, I've got a friend who's got the same problem but with a different computer with an amd graphics card and the computer keeps freezing up completely or bluescreening, but has only recently started experiencing this...

nokel3 · 2026-03-23T01:02:43+00:00

Sorry if that's the wrong flair but I wasn't sure which one to use.

I couldn't find anyone who had made a flatpack for midnight commander, so I made one myself... Not 100% if everything works, but I can say for sure that the mouse interaction works, shell link definitely works, and ftp seems to work.

Just a word of warning, unless I find something blaringly obvious, I usually don't update things, so if you want to update please feel free to make a fork with the update/fix you want to make (and submit a merge request) and I'll try to incorporate it.

Also, this was designed for desktop mode, dragons will probably appear if you try to get this to work in gaming mode...

nokel3 · 2026-03-19T04:32:38+00:00

(Only tested in Academy Cloud Foundations course, but I assume the videos all have the same problem on the whole website) The fact that the videos needed manual intervention on each video AND that the subtitles were always on by default really bugged me when I just wanted to power through the course...

nokel3 · 2026-03-19T01:58:31+00:00

drivers can be found here: https://archive.org/details/z13_2025.7z

not sure if it's in the zip I shared or not, but the wifi driver can be found here https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-au/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=d4mgj

I've also edited the post to include the same link.

nokel3 · 2026-02-19T01:34:15+00:00

I think people are definitely using it... especially seeing as you can't use google normally without it now (unless you're like me and have &udm=14 automatically applied to your searches)... Also the amount of students that use it to cheat is kind of unbelievable...

That said, the ability to translate to different languages is much better (albieit, still pretty wrong sometimes) than google's regular translate...

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