[ltp] Booting from USB stick

Atul Chitnis linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:58:04 +0530 (IST)


On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Haines Brown wrote:

> However, when I try to boot the USB stick, it is bypassed and the hard
> disk is booted. My guess is that either BIOS is not set up right or
> the grub menu on the stick is mis-configured. I have a debian lenny on
> a usb-stick that I believe should be bootable, but it does not boot on
> the Thinkpad either.
>
> In the Thinkpad X61s BIOS, I have BIOS support enabled. According to
> the accompanying notes, this should enable booting a USB
> device. However, I don't see any provision in the Thinkpad for setting
> boot device priority.

When the Thinkpad logo comes up during boot, press the blue Thinkpad 
button above your keyboard. You will get a boot device menu - choose the 
USB stick.

Atul