[ltp] Bootable USB CD rom, X31

[Eben King]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ken Firestone wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Eben King wrote:
> 
>    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?
> 
> Do some of the USB cd drives do that? I haven't tried any other cds in
> the drive, and I have no other computer which will boot from a usb drive.

Take the drive to a computer megastore, and "borrow" the use of one of
their computers to test.  Be sneaky; they probably frown on that.

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