[ltp] Re: [Thinkpad] Booting a X31 from USB without the HPA to get intoBIOS?

[Bruce Markowitz]

Plug in the USB drive and go into the F1 BIOS and tell it to boot from the
USB drive first
HOWEVER
Many ThinkPad recovery CD's will NOT work from USB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: <canyonlands@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Booting a X31 from USB without the HPA to get
intoBIOS?


> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 21:51, RayBay <canyonlands@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Is there any way to make this laptop from USB so I can reinstall the OS
> > on it?"
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't understand the above question?   Is this the Linux
HPA
> > partition?
>
> Is there any way to make this laptop _boot_ from USB so I can reinstall
> the OS on it?
> Sorry, I missed a word, there :/
>
>
> Charles Kaufman told me to try pressing F12 at boot time, so I will try
> that today.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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