[ltp] USB Boot Floppy

[James P. K. Gilb]

You didn't mention the hardware that you were using.

As I recall, the BIOS in at least some of the thinkpads has the option 
to enable or disable booting from USB devices.  You might start there.

You definitely need to put the USB dev in the boot order earlier than 
the hard drive, the default behavior of the BIOS in the laptop will be 
that it does not boot from an USB floppy.

James Gilb

Dale H. Cook wrote:
> Is it possible to create a boot floppy with a USB floppy drive? I tried:
> 
> mkbootdisk --device /dev/sda 2.4.7-10
> 
> The system wrote to the floppy, but I get a boot failure when I try to 
> boot from it.
> 
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