[ltp] Thinkpads can not boot from flash drive?

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:04:14 +0100, Martin Gramatke <xmit@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a little 128MB USB flash drive here with a complete, bootable linux
> desktop. See http://www.damnsmalllinux.org
> 
> It works great even old computers from the last decade, but not on my
> Thinkpad X24!
> 
> I tried all options from the F12 menu. I fiddled in the bios setup to no
> avail.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Are all Thinkpads that deficient? Can you boot from a usb flash drive?


I've booted and installed linux on my x24 from a 16 MB usb flash
stick.  As I recall it took a little work to get the image written
properly onto the stick so that it would boot.  It took me a few trys.
 I had to use dd I think.  I used the fedora boot image.

Alex

> 
> regards
> Martin
>