[ltp] Anyone successfully booted from a USB key (T41)

[Rob Browning]

Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu> writes:

> All my development for RUNT Linux is done on a T40 with an IBM USB 2.0
> memory key.  So I feel certain the T41 is no different, since it uses
> the same BIOS.  I was very happy to see with the latest BIOS update
> that it would remember the boot order of USB devices.  I'd been
> wanting that since I got the laptop.  In any case, it should
> definitely work.  Try the latest BIOS if you haven't already, and look
> at the boot order.  It should list the USB device, if it is present,
> as a USB hard drive.  I make mine bootable with lilo, but there are
> many ways to make them bootable.

Thanks for the info.  Are you partitioning the key or just using it
"raw" (i.e. just using /dev/sda)?

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