Are these little disasters still sold? I want to make sure I
don't get any! That's really weird. I've found a note where
my using a PNY usb 1.0 stick didn't boot, but thats about it.
--STeve Andre'
On 03/17/12 18:10, 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]
<mailto:[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<[email protected]
<mailto:[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>
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