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

Frédéric BOITEUX linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:08 +0200


 Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > Hi,
> ...
> > No boot from the internal CF slot, neither from a PCMCIA one.
> > Sorry ;)
oh, too bad :-(

Le jeu 11 sep 2008 11:35:17 CEST, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> a écrit :

> You can boot from CF cards if you insert them in the IDE bay, via an 
> IDE-CF adapter. Alternatively, you might have some luck using Grub on 
> your main disk to chainload another device.

The Grub's tip could work, I'll investigate if the Grub boot loader
detect the CF card as a disk...

	Fred.