> Betreff: Who is booting IBM T42 or similar from USB stick? > Today I tried to boot IBM T42 from USB stick, but it didn't suceeded. Hello Jan! I´m glad you asked! Booting from USB storage is my thing ;-) Since 2004 I´ve been using a Socket 754 Mainboard from MSI which supports booting from usb devices. As not all mainboards support this, my advice is: 1. Look on manufacturers´ web sites for the documentation of their mainboards. 2. In case you are faced with existing hardware you should plug in the usb stick/drive and then turn on the machine. 3. Take a look on the BIOS setup with usb device attached. Can it be selected as boot device? 4. Some BIOSes feature functions like "legacy device" which means usb devices (i.e. storage) becomes available to old OSes like DOS. Enable such "legacy" modes! 5. Some BIOSes list usb-zip/usb-hd/usb-floppy. Take a try... When the PC starts, check if the indicator LED of your usb stick does something. Does the PC try to find a bootloader? > Please give me known-to-work combinations of IBM ThinkPad and USB stick > models, if you know some! Did you experienced problems with some > particular USB stick models? A word on models/hardware: All sticks were the same so far. Older usb 1.1 models are slower than usb 2.0 but do the same job anyway. The easiest way to get it done is syslinux! Prepare the usb-stick as described in loop-aes readme and you get a stick with bootloader and kernel on it. If you want more, try grub. I never used that but it should work, too. Of course, using flash card readers works also. The ugly thing her is: multi-slot card readers most often use the compact flash slot to start from! I got a newer model that uses the SD-slot :-) Such things remain undocumented, you need to try. The benefit of using micro-SD cards is the ability to destroy them in your hands while someone attacks your privacy. It´s less likely your being tortured once your keys are *physically* broken. I´d be happy to read about your advances! Kind regards, Peter -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
