- external usb floppy with no integral FD - How?
- Posted by cornedbeef@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk on November 5th, 2003
Thinkpad i1300, no integral FD, bios has no knowledge of usb. Have
external usb floppy and wish to boot from it. I know it can be done
but how?
- Posted by Arno Wagner on November 6th, 2003
Previously cornedbeef@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Cannot be done without BIOS support. Sorry. Bios is what
has control over the computer until the bootsector has
been loaded from the boot-device. After that the bootcode
in the bootsector can do a little more.
Arno
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- Posted by Rod Speed on November 6th, 2003
<cornedbeef@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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Are you talking about IBM's usb floppy drive for that thinkpad ?
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site...id=MIGR-4KWRG4
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site...id=MIGR-4NJPZ9
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site...id=MIGR-4L4NJB
tells you how to boot from it, so its presumably supported.
