[syslinux] USB bootable IBM laptop

Jan Ploski jpl at plosquare.com
Mon Jul 20 00:25:11 PDT 2009


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>> No known solution since 2004 ;-)
>> We ought to collect money to buy HPA a thinkpad !
>>
> 
> I have one (a T61).  It doesn't seem to have this problem, to the best
> of my knowledge.
> 
> I found and fixed a Thinkpad bug in 2007, I'm assuming this isn't the
> problem.
> 
> At the same time, it is hardly a secret that USB boot support is awful,
> and that a lot of platforms have problems.  I'll try the T61 again just
> to make sure there isn't a regression, but at least at one point memdisk
> did work on mine.

Thanks. If you can't reproduce this problem, I could possibly assist 
with further runtime debugging information. It was also a T61 that 
didn't work. However, I might have to include its owner in the loop... 
who lives 800km away from me. Let's hope it doesn't work for you, too. ;)




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