Not that I am aware. The past few thumb drives I've gotten in recent years work just fine as boot drives, and I presume that it really isn't a problem anymore. Dale originally never really mentioned anything about the USB hard drive that he's using, or even better, the controller/enclosure for the disk. But let's not complicate things to that level just yet, I am still curious if another machine would boot off the drive in question fine or not.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:45 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<radiotest@plymouthcolony.**net <[email protected]> >> <mailto: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> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
