[ltp] Thinkpads can not boot from flash drive?

Henrik Brix Andersen linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:17:39 +0100


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On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:38 -0500, Joel Ebel wrote:

> Boot protocol?  Every USB-Storage device can be made bootable if the=20
> BIOS supports booting.  That's like saying some hard drives don't=20
> support booting.  It's just a storage device.

The storage device needs to support the USB Bootability specification in
order to be bootable.

./Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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