From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 10:32:59 EST
This sounds right, but I'm still trying to find a way to set the PC Card as
active. Partition Magic running under DOS doesn't even see the drive. Will
probably try the Linux fdisk at some point and see if that helps...
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
To: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?
> > could be made ACTIVE. In other words, if you have the
> > hard drive in the computer to run Windows allowing
> > access to the PCMCIA hard drive you can't make it
> > ACTIVE and if you take out the original hard drive you
> > can't access the PCMCIA drive. I even tried taking the
> > hard drive out and booting from a Windows CD to try
> > and run FDISK to set the PCMCIA drive active but then
> > couldn't access the PC slots.
>
> What you have to do is (a) tell the system to boot from the floppy instead
of the HD, and (b) have a set of DOS PC card drivers in a directory
somewhere (HD is OK) so the DOS floppy's config files can find and call
them.
> Doesn't affect the WIndows installation at all.
>
> Again, this was on a 560X (works also on a 560), it is possible (if
unlikely!) that it wouldn't work as well on a 600X.
>
> > There is probably a utility out there somewhere that
> > can make any drive ACTIVE but without that it isn't
> > bootable.
>
> Any partition manager should be able to do this, but in any event it is
not a problem if one installs DOS on the pc card disk the way I did it.
>
> - David R.
>
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