Agreed, you probably are out of luck because the TPads you are working with predate the mass proliferation of portable USB devices.
Mitchell On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jon Etkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Some BIOSes are incapable of booting from USB flash media - particularly > those that predate its existence. I suspect you may be SOL, but check if > there's a setting for "legacy USB support" and make sure it's enabled. > > > [email protected] wrote: >> I tried both. >> >> The "removable device" is before all other options (HDD for instance) >> And I tried F12 and selected "removable device" manually. >> >> Both does not work. >> >> Then I verifed the USB-stick boots all well by testing it in my desktop PC. >> >> What is in the way that it won't boot on the mentioned ThinkPads? > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com) > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
