[ltp] Thinkpads can not boot from flash drive?

[Joel Ebel]

The USB mass storage class specification states in section 1.1:

"Booting an operating system from a USB Mass Storage Class device 
requires no special considerations with regard to Mass Storage Class 
support."

This document can be found here:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usb_msc_overview_1.2.pdf

In addition, there is information on the minimum set of commands 
required to make a device bootable here:

http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usb_msc_boot_1.0.pdf

Are you saying your device doesn't conform to the USB mass storage 
specification?  Does it lack this minimal set of commands?  If so, I'd 
think it's either made improperly or defective.

Joel



Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:38 -0500, Joel Ebel wrote:
> 
> 
>>Boot protocol?  Every USB-Storage device can be made bootable if the 
>>BIOS supports booting.  That's like saying some hard drives don't 
>>support booting.  It's just a storage device.
> 
> 
> The storage device needs to support the USB Bootability specification in
> order to be bootable.
> 
>  ./Brix