[ltp] booting from USB hard disk

[Joel Ebel]

On the T40 series, USB booting got better with the 3.0 BIOS release.  If 
you haven't got it, I'd recommend getting the latest BIOS.  It made my 
life so much easier.  I did a dance when I found out the improvements 
this BIOS gave me.  I do all my RUNT Linux development on a T40, so this 
was significant to me.

Joel Ebel

Vincent Touquet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Matt Graham wrote:
> 
>>What's the model# of your Thinkpad?  Always include that information 
>>when you ask technical questions.  
> 
> 
> Ok, sorry. It's a T41p 2373GHG
> 
> 
>>Some Thinkpads can't boot from a USB 
>>device.  Describe what exactly you did in the BIOS Setup.  ?crivez en 
>>fran?ais si vous preferez, je peux le lire.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the offer, but French is not actually my mother tongue,
> eventhough I have a totally French name ;)
> 
> 
>>The BIOS will check for a boot signature on the first 512 bytes of 
>>whatever device it boots from.  If that signature isn't there, the BIOS 
>>checks the next device in the list.
> 
> 
> That will be the cause then :)
> I assumed the BIOS to be less smart, shame on me.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Vincent