Don't you have to make the USB drive bootable? There is a s/w for this. I have done it. Jeffrey Race
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:10:52 -0500, Calvin Walden wrote: >I've had a couple (albeit, older, but USB 2.0) thumb drives that my >machines simply wouldn't boot off of, even after trying several different >methods of installing Linux on them. >I think Dale should 1) try to get another computer to boot off of his hard >drive and 2) try using a different thumb drive or hard drive with his >Thinkpad, if that is possible for him. That would at least confirm where >the problem lies. > >On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How have you seen that? If the device in question adheres to the >> USB specifications, then I fail to see how it this can happen. There >> really isn't anything special about booting--the machine that is >> booting has to know about USB devices, but beyond that it isn't >> special. Now, systems that don't properly talk USB could have all >> sorts of interesting problems, certainly. Are you sure you haven't >> crashed into them? Lastly, are these older USB devices? I can see >> USB 1.x things being broken, but not 2.0 stuff. >> >> I'm curious about this. >> >> Thanks, STeve Andre' >> >> >> On 03/17/12 12:31, Calvin Walden wrote: >> >>> Something I've noticed is that not all USB storage devices can be booted >>> from. Maybe try to boot off of it using a different machine first? >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Dale H. Cook<radiotest@plymouthcolony.* >>> *net <[email protected]> >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> 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<http://plymouthcolony.net/**starcityeng/index.html> >>>> <http://**plymouthcolony.net/**starcityeng/index.html<http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html> >>>> > >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>>> Thinkpad mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/****mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> >>>> <http**://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/**listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> >>>> > >>>> >>>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> >> >_______________________________________________ >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
