[ltp] USB Boot Floppy

[Dale H. Cook]

At 12:53 PM 8/15/2003 -0700, James P. K. Gilb wrote:

>You didn't mention the hardware that you were using.

Thinkpad i1200 with the external USB floppy drive, using the latest BIOS.

>As I recall, the BIOS in at least some of the thinkpads has the option to 
>enable or disable booting from USB devices.  You might start there.
>
>You definitely need to put the USB dev in the boot order earlier than the 
>hard drive, the default behavior of the BIOS in the laptop will be that it 
>does not boot from an USB floppy.

I've always had the BIOS set to boot from floppy, CD-ROM and HD, in that 
order. It's not a problem of disk access - the BIOS accesses the floppy 
first on boot, it just doesn't find anything in the drive it can boot from.


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