[ltp] Bootable USB CD rom, X31

[Eben King]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ken Firestone wrote:

> I am having a problem booting my Thinkpad X31 from the usb cdrom. The
> bios is set to permit booting from the usb cdrom, and the cdrom is the
> first device on the bootlist. Yet every time I try to boot a bootable
> Linux cd (SuSE, Knoppix) it goes into  windoze.  Any thoughts or ideas?

WAGs:

Maybe the drive itself doesn't permit that.  Have you booted from other 
CDs/DVDs in this drive?

Are you sure it's a CD and not a DVD?  Maybe the drive doesn't like
bootable DVDs.

I booted my T40 from a USB solid-state drive, and the BIOS referred to it
as a "hard drive", when I would have called it a "removable device".

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