[ltp] Trying to boot X31 (2672-C8G) from USB-Stick

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

Hi *,

as my BIOS lists a "USB Mass Storage Drive 2" when a usb
memory stick is inserted in one of the two usb ports of my
X31, I supposed, that it should be possible to boot from
usb stick.

But I wasn't quite successful. I have verified, that the
usb stick is read during startup - at least the error
messages differ whether I use superfloppy ("Boot failed") or hard-disk
format ("MBR Boot failed"). Even "GRUB" is shown on the screen, after I
installed grub on the usb stick.

I tried SPB-Linux (http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/) on the
stick but the kernel was not booted.

Can anybody give me a hint how to proceed? What is needed
to not only read from the stick during startup but boot a
kernel from it?

Thx.

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