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

[Vincent C Jones]

Just checking the obvious, but you are using the USB port on the side of
the box, which is powered, rather than the one on the back, which is
not? On my X32, USB boot only works on the side USB port. 

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:46 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 22:07, Chris Penn <cantormath@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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/
> 
> I tried several ways to boot from USB with several sticks.
> As I have quite some experience with making stuff boot with
> the weirdest settings, I don't think the error can lie with me,
> any more. Which is highly frustrating, as I prefer learning
> new stuff over 'does not work, tough luck' :/
> 
> 
> > does the bios see the drive at all?
> > as a removable drive?
> > cdrom?
> 
> No. I do have a CD-ROM option in the boot menu and BIOS,
> it does not expand like the HDD entry does for the HDD and
> USB stick.
> 
> 
> > when you hit f12 during boot, does it give you boot drive options?
> 
> Yes. I cold not find anything that would work, though.
> 
> 
> If anyone has any other ideas, it would be _hugely_ appreciated.
> Especially annoying is the fact that I am even using an
> external drive from IBM..
> 
> I will probably have to fall back to installing on another box and
> moving the hdd after that. Ugly as the only other laptop with
> built-in CD-ROM has a SATA connector.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> PS: Before anyone suggests [c]debootstrap: cdebootstrap throws
> erros, debootstrap (still!) does not set up a system completely.
> As I had loads of fun with systems installed from debootstrap,
> I will pass on that option.