[ltp] Re: X20 ticking like a clock?

[Eben King]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Rolf Leggewie wrote:

> André Wyrwa wrote:
> 
> >>Another question if I may.  Does the X20 support booting off a Compact 
> >>Flash Card?
> 
> > Didn't try yet, but am interested in the same question.
> 
> 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.

Using a bootloader on the HD, you shoud be able to boot from anything the
BIOS can access (whether or not it can boot from it).  If the BIOS can't
access the CF card, you're out of luck.

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