thinkpad t600 usb boot?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: thinkpad t600 usb boot?
started by: Borghart

Posted by Borghart on April 19 2006,18:41

Hi,
I have a t600 with a defected harddrive. I would like to use a usb stick instead of a harddisk, but unfortunately the bios does not support it.

Is it possible to boot the DSL Kernel from cdrom, and have the DSL Rootfilesystem on USB-Stick?

I would like not to have the cdrom spinning up, and i fear to use the 'toram' cheatcode, because there is only 128mb ram installed and no swap available.
Maybe one forum user has got some experience with that.
Regards, Borghart

Posted by green on April 19 2006,19:58

I have a machine that does not boot USB and has 128 Mb RAM. It does just fine with "toram" optioned up at boot. I use the USB stick to save settings, etc, no hard drive needed.

I have not tried to have the CD boot the USB. It may be possible, but don't know how to do that at the moment.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 20 2006,16:54

Does booting from cd with this commnad:

dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1

and with your drive plugged in work?