Re: PCMCIA Compact disk boot.

From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 15:45:58 EST

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I wonder if bootability depends on the particular card/adapter (did you get
a flash+PC card adapter, or a full card?)
Have you looked at the manufacturer's web page?

One possible solution is a boot manager like http://www.xosl.org/ or
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ -
you'd actually boot from the HD, but then the manager would tell the system
to boot from the
partition on the PC Card

- David R.

> On the advice of several members of this list I bought a PCMCIA 64M
> Compact disk.
> While I'm really happy with it, (thanks to all) I haven't been able to
> boot from it yet.
> Is there some trick that I'm missing?. I did the format /s number and it
> worked
> but on reboot I get the ole floppy picture even though I did PCMCIA
> under setup.
> This would be ideal for some of my dedicated controller Thinkpad setups.
>
> Thanks, Bert
>
>
>

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