[ltp] R40 boot from USB stick

[Joel Ebel]

On the T40, the memory key shows up as a hard drive.  If you go into the 
BIOS, you can rearrange the order of hard drives to put the memory stick 
first.  Only problem is that if you reboot without the stick in, and 
then put it in later, it's back at the bottom.  There's no way to boot 
it with the F12 menu.  You have to go into the BIOS and change it.  If 
you're interested in booting Linux off of it, and it's at least 128 MB, 
check out my project here:

http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/runt

If you have a floppy drive, you can boot off of it and run linux off the 
memory key.  But you can install lilo on the drive, reboot and change 
the boot order to use the USB drive.  It would be nice if they could 
patch the BIOS to preserve that order after it's removed.  I don't know 
who I'd talk to about that though.

Joel

Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> I wonder, if anyone tried that?
> I have an usbstick (USB 1.1) here, enabled the BIOS usb boot setting and 
> tried various format options. Stick formatted as super floppy (i.e. 
> without partitions) or as normal HD with one primary partition (which I 
> made active).
> For each try I used syslinux to make it bootable, but I have not 
> succeeded so far. The stick got recognized by the bios but there was no 
> USB option in the list of bootable devices which you get by pressing F12 
> during the IBM splash screen.
> 
> Any hints?
> -Rolf
>