I have acquired a T42 with no HDD. The boot device table at ThinkWiki
shows the T42 as capable of booting from a USB HDD. I have tried
booting from a USB HD, but in the F12 menu it shows as "-USB HDD" and
I presume that the "-USB" means that it is not bootable (and it won't
boot). The "-USB HDD" also shows in the boot order in the BIOS (and,
yes, I do have USB support enabled in the BIOS). It will boot from a
Windows CD in the CD drive or from a DOS floppy in a USB floppy drive.
If I enable diagnostics boot mode in the BIOS everything looks normal
- the system and extended RAM pass, and everything else in the
diagnostics looks normal.
The model is 2379-DWU. Could there be something odd about this
machine that prevents booting from the USB HDD, and is there anything
I can do about it?
Dale H. Cook, Market Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting,
Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html
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