[ltp] Re: Booting an X30 off CompactFlash?
Paul Crowley
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
05 Feb 2003 14:17:04 +0000
Evan Knop <argent@Dartmouth.EDU> writes:
> 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 finally had success by buying a "Le Cie" USB CDRW drive and
booting from a CD in that drive.
Still wondering if there's a solution that doesn't involve buying
special hardware. Is there somewhere in the XP boot sequence that a
loadlin-like program could live? Of course you'd need administrator
privs to put anything there, but...
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