[ltp] Booting from a portable drive bay? (was: [Thinkpad] Booting a X31 from USB without the HPA to get into BIOS?)

[Chris Penn]

you could try something like this
http://www.teamteabag.com/2008/05/17/howto-easy-install-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-or-most-other-distros-from-usb/

does the bios see the drive at all?
as a removable drive?
cdrom?
when you hit f12 during boot, does it give you boot drive options?

chris...

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 13:50, Richard Hartmann
> <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My X31 is unhappy with my USB stick, for some reason.
>
> I managed to secure an external CD drive, part number 00N7940,
> FRU number 37L1513.
>
> Reading CDs from this little beauty works just fine, but it only powers
> up during the later stages of Linux booting. It does _not_ power up
> while I am in the BIOS, so I can't boot from said CD drive. Soft rebooting
> does not work either (I had hoped it would).
>
> Same symptoms with a Sony Vaio external CD drive.
>
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this? /me is starting to get
> frustrated by all this.. :(
>
>
> Richard
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