[ltp] Booting from USB stick

[jnjb]

Haines Brown wrote:
> This is my first experience with a laptop of any kind, and so my
> question is undoubtedly naive. 
>
> I created a USB-key with a live sidux system on it. I can boot sidux
> on the machine on which I made the key. My aim now is to boot a
> Thinkpad X61s with it and install sidux in place of the Windows sytem
> the laptop came with.
>
> However, when I try to boot the USB stick, it is bypassed and the hard
> disk is booted. My guess is that either BIOS is not set up right or
> the grub menu on the stick is mis-configured. I have a debian lenny on
> a usb-stick that I believe should be bootable, but it does not boot on
> the Thinkpad either. 
>
> In the Thinkpad X61s BIOS, I have BIOS support enabled. According to
> the accompanying notes, this should enable booting a USB
> device. However, I don't see any provision in the Thinkpad for setting
> boot device priority. 
>
> As for the grub menu, here's what I have:
>
>   default 0
>   timeout 10
>   color red/black light-red/black
>   foreground EE0000
>   background 400000
>   gfxmenu /boot/message
>
>   ##ISO boot
>   title sidux (fromISO + fromUSB) 
>   kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2 boot=fll \ 
>   	 fromhd=UUID=b4f48c83-75df-4a04-b28a-bbcccc24113f \ 
>          fromiso nointro quiet vga=791 lang=us/fromiso
>   initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2
>
> The files and locations pointed to here do exist on the USB stick. I
> have a half-gig ISO file in / and a /boot directory that holds the
> initrd, kernel, and a /grub directory. The USB-stick has an ext3
> filesystem. 
>
> I don't understand why the:
> "fromhd=UUID=b4f48c83-75df-4a04-b28a-bbcccc24113f". I'm booting from
> usb, not from hd. Do I have to remove this statement? And is the
> device ID here not that of the machine on which the key was made
> rather than the Thinkpad? Also, is it likely I need to disable apic?
>
> Haines Brown
>
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Sorry i have only an x24, and he boot on usb, for sidux you can perhaps 
try the last testing, see distrowatch for that.

If an old thinkpad like mine boot on usb the x61 boot on usb or perhaps 
on sdcard or other i dont remenber if x61 had sd reader but on my eeepc 
work very whell