[ltp] Re: Booting an X30 off CompactFlash?

[Evan Knop]

on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:52:43AM +0000, Paul Crowley was heard to have remarked:
> Paul Timmins <paul@timmins.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 06:26, Paul Crowley wrote:
> > > I am going quite mad watching this thing boot into XP when it is the
> > >last thing I want it to boot into.  Has anyone here succeded in
> > >making an XP machine boot Linux on a machine without internal CD or
> > >floppy drives?  How did you do it?
> > 
> > I've done it on a Sony Vaio with a USB floppy drive once. I have no
> > applicable experience with the thinkpad, because every one I've ever
> > owned or used came with either a cdrom or floppy, or both.  Have you
> > tried a USB floppy drive? 
> 
> I don't have access to one.  However it sounds like the guy in the
> shop was talking nonsense, and a USB CDROM boot should work just fine.

USB CD-RW drives don't seem to work.  I think the IBM external drive
(USB) would work fine, but I don't know if others' USB CD-ROM drives
would work.

I have an X23 (great machine, except that it doesn't always recover
from sleep).  What I ended up doing was to remove the hard drive from
the notebook, and used a notebook->3.5" adapter to install linux to
the drive.  I couldn't find a way to get the CF adapter to boot the
computer.  Maybe if you could get LILO or grub on the primary drive,
you could jump to the CF disk on boot.

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