[ltp] booting from USB hard disk

[Vincent Touquet]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Matt Graham wrote:
>What's the model# of your Thinkpad?  Always include that information 
>when you ask technical questions.  

Ok, sorry. It's a T41p 2373GHG

>Some Thinkpads can't boot from a USB 
>device.  Describe what exactly you did in the BIOS Setup.  ?crivez en 
>fran?ais si vous preferez, je peux le lire.

Thanks for the offer, but French is not actually my mother tongue,
eventhough I have a totally French name ;)

>The BIOS will check for a boot signature on the first 512 bytes of 
>whatever device it boots from.  If that signature isn't there, the BIOS 
>checks the next device in the list.

That will be the cause then :)
I assumed the BIOS to be less smart, shame on me.

thanks

Vincent