[ltp] TP 600E booting from CDROM thru Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460/80 ?

Alex Morris linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:32:43 +0000


Booting from PCMCIA is only supported when the ThinkPad is in the big
docking station. Sorry for the bad news.

--Alex

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:50:21 +0800 (HKT), "Kelvin KAN"
<kelvin@neuron.hongkong.sgi.com> said:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody had luck bootin from CDROM thru Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460 or
> 1480
> (for Linux installation) on TP600E?
> 
> I set in the BIOS to prioritize the boot devices in the order: pcmcia
> cdrom fd hd, but it seemed to ignore the choice of pcmcia.  I assume
> CDROM means the built-in IDE CDROM.
> 
> Thanks,
> -
> kelvin.

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