[ltp] Booting T23 from USB stick

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:29:49 +0000


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Has anyone booted a T23 from a USB stick?
> 
> I googled for this, and there seemed some suggestions
> that it was possible, but I couldn't work out if anyone had actually done it.
> 
> My USB stick does not seem to be listed in the BIOS
> as a boot option.
> I have the latest BIOS (1.20) according to Lenovo;
> I've also made all system updates that I can find.
> 

Does the BIOS show the USB stick as a hard drive? (A regular HDD, not a 
USB-HDD). That used to work with my X22.

Otherwise, you may be out of luck. If so, you could chainload the USB 
stick from Grub (on the regular HDD, or floppy or cdrom). Or, you could 
do a network boot.

Regards,

Richard