From: Jack Schudel (jgs2_at_nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 00:51:14 EST
A few more things to look at...
On my 600E, I can boot off of a compact flash card mounted in a pcmcia
adapter, but it is a little less than obvious.
According to the IBM service manual, you have to disable hot-swap on
the cd/floppy bay to enable booting from pcmcia.
(Naturally, you can't change that option from the bios, which makes it
hard to use pcmcia as your disaster recovery plan if you ever want to
be able to hot-swap).
After setting that, and setting the PCMCIA as the first boot device,
(or as the only boot device), the first boot after power on will
fail with a numeric error code that translates to i/o error on boot
device. Once I get that, a cntl-alt-del will (finally) boot from the
pcmcia card. (whew!)
Good luck...
/jack
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Edward Mendelson wrote:
> Has anyone actually booted a ThinkPad 600X (or anything else) from a
> PCMCIA card hard disk?
>
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