[ltp] Re: possible to boot on a CF card ?

[Richard Neill]

Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi,
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> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:27:30 +0200 Fr=E9d=E9ric BOITEUX wrote:
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>>   I have a Thinkpad X31 with a Compact-Flash card reader. I would like
>> to boot on such a card (with a Debian Live :-), but even with card
>> inserted, the laptop don't propose to boot on it : is it possible ?
>> (the card reader is on a PCMCIA port, not a USB one).
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> No boot from the internal CF slot, neither from a PCMCIA one.
> Sorry ;)
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You can boot from CF cards if you insert them in the IDE bay, via an=20
IDE-CF adapter. Alternatively, you might have some luck using Grub on=20
your main disk to chainload another device.

Richard