[ltp] Booting from external HD

[Kevin Locke]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is it possible to boot a ThinkPad T20 from an external USB hard drive?
> Any suggestions gratefully received.

On the T21 it is not possible.  To be more specific, I have not yet
found a way to get any USB devices to appear in the list of bootable
devices (even when correctly formatted) and there are no references to
booting from a USB device in any of the IBM documentation for the T21
that I have found.  Given the similarities between the T20 and the T21,
I assume that the situation is the same for the T20.

However, if you do find a way to get it to boot (or can be reasonably
sure that it is not possible) feel free to add an entry to the ThinkWiki
table of supported boot devices.[1]

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1.  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Supported_Boot_Devices