[ltp] T23 usb boot problem

[Olek A.]

My T23 bios setup recognizes connected USB stick, and list it as a device to 
choose from for booting. So of course setup is intended to use USB stick as 
booting device.
It is listed initially below harddisk and you can change boot priority by 
using F5/F6 keys.
I was thinking that newer bios from IBM will solve the problem, but in its 
changelog there's nothing related to USB so I didn't upgrade.

I found an interesting page about this subject:

http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/Projects/USB/USBstick.html

It seems that USB booting option is not stable yet as one motherboard behaves 
differently from other . . .  
  

On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 19:17:56 Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> wrote:
> > * Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> [2007 May 01 08:07 -0500]:
> > > On 5/1/07, Olek A. <brodo@o2.pl> wrote:
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >I recently made a bootable USB stick in order to boot my T23.
> > > >I used latest Knoppix CD as a source.
> > > >T23 displays "missing operating system" and nothing more.
> > > >I tried all Bios-setup-usb startup combinations but without luck.
> > > >
> > > >Using other desktop PC it went fine booting properly.
> > > >
> > > >What's wrong with this T23 ?
> > > >I searched in IBM pages (Bios versions, etc, mine bios is 1.17) but I
> > > >found no
> > > >solutions at all.
> > > >
> > > >Any suggestions folks ?
> > >
> > > Can you verify that T23s even support USB boot?  Not all thinkpads do.
> >
> > I have a hard disk that I used in a long gone T42 that I put in a USB
> > case.  I was not able to get it to boot on my T23.  As I recall, I got
> > a kernel panic related to a lack of USB modules in the initrd.img file.
> > I've not pursued it further to know where the problem is exactly.
>
> Well it did boot though.  Whether your resulting environment was
> working or not is irrelevant.  My s30, for example, will detect USB
> devices in the bios and list them as disks, but it only attempts to
> boot off the HD.
>
> Alex