[ltp] Thinkpads can not boot from flash drive?

[Joel Ebel]

I develop a USB distribution on my Thinkpad T40. 
(http://www.ncsu.edu/project/runt)  So the T40 definitely supports it. 
I don't know whether or not any other laptop supports USB booting since 
the T40 is all I have, but if it does, it should show up in the BIOS 
boot order or the F12 menu.  So it sounds like yours doesn't support it. 
  You can also boot from a floppy, CDROM or hard drive but still mount 
the root filesystem on the pen drive.

Joel

Martin Gramatke 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?
> 
> regards
> Martin
>