Sure, but I don't think that's the issue here; it's the concept of
a non-booting USB device, regardless of OS used.
--STeve Andre
On 03/17/12 19:30, Jeffrey Race wrote:
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
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