[ltp] is it possible to boot a SATA drive from Ultrabay on a T410?

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> my company is upgrading our laptops to the T410.
> I will be getting one of these soon and I had the idea of fitting the
> SATA drive from my T400 in the Ultrabay so I can boot my Linux system
> out of it.
> 
> The reason for this is that I tend to travel a lot and since I don't
> take my personal laptop I am forced to use Windows instead of my
> heavily customized Linux environment, which I very much prefer.
> Whenever necessary, I would hibernate Linux and go back to Windows as required.
> 
I would be very careful doing this.  My experience with OpenSuSE and Windows
XP on a T41 was that switching OS during hibernation lead to file corruption on
both OSes.  I reinstalled WinXP four or more times (2-3 hours each) and had to
let fschk repair ExtFS several times before I figured it out.  There were no
filesystem corruptions for several years after I always did a full shutdown
and warm boot when switching OS.

I expect filesystem repair of an encrypted parition to be very unreliable.

After several years of this, and many WinXP updates, WinXP started complaining
about unexpected interrupts, apparently from the Intel IPW2100 card, and
refusing to boot.  So I gave up on Windows and only ran Linux.

HTH,
  Jeffrey