[ltp] Anyone successfully booted from a USB key (T41)

[Joel Ebel]

All my development for RUNT Linux is done on a T40 with an IBM USB 2.0 
memory key.  So I feel certain the T41 is no different, since it uses 
the same BIOS.  I was very happy to see with the latest BIOS update that 
it would remember the boot order of USB devices.  I'd been wanting that 
since I got the laptop.  In any case, it should definitely work.  Try 
the latest BIOS if you haven't already, and look at the boot order.  It 
should list the USB device, if it is present, as a USB hard drive.  I 
make mine bootable with lilo, but there are many ways to make them bootable.

Joel

Rob Browning wrote:
> I was just trying to create a bootable usb key for my t41, and so far
> I haven't had any luck.  The BIOS can see it, and I can get it to run
> the key's MBR (when I trying a partitioned arrangement), but that's as
> far as it goes.
> 
> I've tried syslinux and the freedos image, and I've tried it with the
> key both partitioned (/dev/sda1) and unpartitioned (/dev/sda).  It's
> gotten far enough to print "FreeDOS" when trying freedos, and far
> enough to print "Boot failed" when trying syslinux.
> 
> The key in question is a lexar sport 256MB, and I believe it's a USB
> 2.0 key.  I'm not sure the latter is relevant, but I heard at least
> one suggestion that some BIOSes might have trouble booting from a 2.0
> key.
> 
> Thanks