[ltp] Booting from external HD

[James Knott]

Kevin Locke wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Is it possible to boot a ThinkPad T20 from an external USB hard drive?
>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> On the T21 it is not possible.  To be more specific, I have not yet
> found a way to get any USB devices to appear in the list of bootable
> devices (even when correctly formatted) and there are no references to
> booting from a USB device in any of the IBM documentation for the T21
> that I have found.  Given the similarities between the T20 and the T21,
> I assume that the situation is the same for the T20.
> 
> However, if you do find a way to get it to boot (or can be reasonably
> sure that it is not possible) feel free to add an entry to the ThinkWiki
> table of supported boot devices.[1]
> 

I have an R31 and it does boot from one USB device, the external floppy
drive.  Beyond that, it doesn't appear to be able to boot from USB devices.