[ltp] Re: Booting an X30 off CompactFlash?

[Paul Crowley]

Paul Crowley <paul@ciphergoth.org> writes:
> I just received an X30.  It has no CDROM or floppy drive and I don't
> have USB ones, so I'm trying to work out how to boot it into Linux.

Following up myself to say: I tried creating a bootable CF with Win98,
but it doesn't boot from it.  I bought a 64Mb USB solid state disk
which specifically advertised itself as bootable, made it bootable
with Win98, it still boots into WinXP.  Both times I pressed F12 and
selected "Removable devices" as the boot option.  USB BIOS was
enabled.  I even tried the "CD-ROM" setting.

The guy in the computer shop shop assured me that it would almost
certainly *not* boot from an external USB CDROM drive, despite the
presence of a "USB BIOS" setting in the BIOS.  However, he turned out
not to know what a filesystem was, so I don't know if his word would
be reliable.  He refused to let me try it, even though I had the
laptop and disk with me...

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?
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