[ltp] Bootable USB CD rom, X31

[James McKenzie]

Eban:

Take the drive back to the store you bought it from and advise them that 
it does not work properly.  I did that with a USB 2.0 card and they gave 
me my money back, less the restock fee, but they allowed me to plug in 
the new card before I left the store and showed them that the new card 
actually worked in my A22p system.  Saved them the bother of restocking 
the second card and saved me gas as the store is about 150 miles (240km) 
round trip.

James McKenzie


Eben King wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ken Firestone wrote:
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>>On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Eben King wrote:
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>>   On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ken Firestone wrote:
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>>   > I am having a problem booting my Thinkpad X31 from the usb cdrom. The
>>   > bios is set to permit booting from the usb cdrom, and the cdrom is the
>>   > first device on the bootlist. Yet every time I try to boot a bootable
>>   > Linux cd (SuSE, Knoppix) it goes into  windoze.  Any thoughts or ideas?
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>>   WAGs:
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>>   Maybe the drive itself doesn't permit that.  Have you booted from other
>>   CDs/DVDs in this drive?
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>>Do some of the USB cd drives do that? I haven't tried any other cds in
>>the drive, and I have no other computer which will boot from a usb drive.
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>Take the drive to a computer megastore, and "borrow" the use of one of
>their computers to test.  Be sneaky; they probably frown on that.
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