- Thinkpad 240 boot from CD?
- Posted by ejtastad@gmail.com on August 5th, 2006
I have a Thinkpad 240 laptop with no external floppy drive and a PCMCIA
CD ROM. Is there a way to make it boot directly from the PCMCIA CD or
do I have to find an old external floppy drive and boot from that
first? I have tried a few bootable CDs in the drive with no luck,
changed the boot order in the BIOS, but nothing. It reads from the CD
but doesn't boot from it. Just says "non system disk error..."
Any help would be appreciated. I searched and came up with several
things saying not being able to boot from USB, but nothing about
booting from PCMCIA that has been helpful.
Thanks,
Eric
- Posted by Johnnie Leung on August 5th, 2006
<ejtastad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The 240 series can only boot from the internal hard drive or the floppy
drive. Not just any floppy drive, but the dedicated drive that connects to
the connector next to the audio jacks.
JL
- Posted by Johnnie Leung on August 5th, 2006
<ejtastad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The 240 series can only boot from the internal hard drive or the floppy
drive. Not just any floppy drive, but the dedicated drive that connects to
the connector next to the audio jacks.
JL
- Posted by Quaoar on August 5th, 2006
Johnnie Leung wrote:
No network boot?
Q
- Posted by Quaoar on August 5th, 2006
Johnnie Leung wrote:
No network boot?
Q
- Posted by Johnnie Leung on August 5th, 2006
"Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
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Not on the 240 (nor its successor 240X). There isn't even a way to
manipulate the boot priority or manually select the boot device. The
Japan-only 240Z (last of the line) has a built-in NIC and the BIOS does
support booting from network, but I bet that's not what the OP has.
JL
- Posted by Johnnie Leung on August 5th, 2006
"Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
news:e8ydnXdCqvn4h0jZnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
Not on the 240 (nor its successor 240X). There isn't even a way to
manipulate the boot priority or manually select the boot device. The
Japan-only 240Z (last of the line) has a built-in NIC and the BIOS does
support booting from network, but I bet that's not what the OP has.
JL
- Posted by viking79 on August 7th, 2006
Thanks for the info, Eric
- Posted by viking79 on August 7th, 2006
Thanks for the info, Eric
