[ltp] finding thinkpads which boot from usb 2.0 disk

[Joel Ebel]

That's exactly the problem I mentioned about my T40 that a BIOS update 
solved.  You may want to check if there's an update.  There might not be 
since the T40 is more like the R50.  They may have abandoned the older 
model for the update.

Joel

Damian Lubosch wrote:
> Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mack Stevenson wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Could you please help me find out "how far back" 
>>> in the thinkpad line I can go while still being able to do so? If your 
>>> thinkpad supports usb 2.0 and your BIOS supports the USB boot option, 
>>> please let me know!
>>>    
>>>
>> My R40 is about 1 1/2 years old and does not support booting from USB.
>> However, some R40 do support that, so I am wondering if one can do a 
>> BIOS upgrade to enable USB boot. Does anybody have any experiences with
>> that?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wolf
>>  
>>
> Hi Wolf!
> 
> Well, my over 2 year old R40 does boot from USB (2.0). Unfortunately it
> is not that comfortable. You need to boot with your USB bootdevice
> plugged in and enter BIOS. Go to the menu where you can set the boot
> devices, and go to the harddisk. Now, in my case, I can see also the USB
> harddisk device and I have to change the boot order so that the USB
> device will come before the internal harddisk to be able to boot from
> it. The only annoying thing is that if I boot the R40 once without the
> external harddisk, the bios sets the internal disk to be the first, also
> when I boot a second time with external drive.
> 
> But most important is that it works ;-)
> 
> Good luck!
> Damian.
> 
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