[ltp] T520 supports booting from USB?

Rubin Abdi linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:06:43 -0800


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On 19 January 2017 at 20:28, Bert Haskins <bhaskins@chartermi.net> wrote:

> They don't boot from a SD card though which seems a little strange.


Most ThinkPads from that era have SD cards that are PCI devices, not USB.
And yes for whatever reason they never made that specific device a bootable
option in the bios.


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