[ltp] Re: X20 ticking like a clock?

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:42:22 -0400


On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:45 +0200, Rolf Leggewie wrote:

> That would be really cool.  Sort of like an up-to-date floppy 
> replacement for this floppy-less machine.  But I did not see an option 
> in the BIOS to boot from CF, there was one for legacy floppy drive but I 
> doubt that refers to the CF adapter.  Maybe it is possible via grub/lilo 
> to make an entry for booting from CF.

If you buy the media slice / ultrabay / whatever the heck they're
calling it these days, it contains a floppy drive.  So I'm guessing that
the "boot from floppy" option is for precisely that - booting from the
floppy in the media slice.  

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