How can I boot from a thumb drive on the IBM ThinkPad a22m?
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March 31st, 2011
I need to boot froma thumb drive on the IBM ThinkPad A22m, how can I do this? Is there a bootable CD that forces any computer to support a USB boot?
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you can boot from one or the other. I think bootable usb is easier for many reasons, but the bios has to support it.
Google how to create a bootable USB and you will find out how to make one
You need to configure the BIOS to boot from USB. If the BIOS setup does not offer that option then you are probably out of luck unless you can re-flash it.
If you boot Linux from CD you can mount an arbitrary filesystem as the root filesystem, including one on a USB device. This is because the kernel has USB support. I don’t know of any boot loaders that have native USB support…
Actually it appears that I’m wrong. According to this link GRUB can be made to do it. There is another link in that thread to instructions for doing it with the Windows XP bootloader instead of GRUB. Both these sets of instructions assume that the bootloader is present on the local hard drive. It’s possible to make a GRUB boot cd, and if you google that phrase you’ll find some instructions. I don’t know if it’s possible to do that with a Windows bootloader or not.
I found PLOP boot manager and am using unetbootin to make the flash drive, but unetbooting messed up with windows 2000 installation disc, and i’m trying backtrack 4 right nblow.
@blueiiznh are there any other proggy’s that easily turn an iso into a bottable flash drive?
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