Boot through PCMCIA

[CDWells]

I bought a PCMCIA to USB connector for my X40 and the port works perfectly shows power to the device and brings it up on screen but....
When I plug in my flash drive to boot and install Ubuntu 11.04 the PCMCIA does not show in the list of devices in my BIOS
my BIOS has every update installed

and thanks to Harryc for the idea of buying a PCMCIA to USB

[Harryc]

What's on the flash drive? It has to "have boot code on the first block of the device" in order to be seen by BIOS.
Reference - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installat ... CIA_device

[CDWells]

I did what the page said and after the last command it said:
dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found

EDIT: Nevermind I figured it out

[Harryc]

What exact commands did you run? How did you determine your USB stick was sdb? Did you umount it? What image are you trying to copy to USB? Where is it located?

[CDWells]

1:
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ ... oot.img.gz
gunzip boot.img.gz
sudo dd if=boot.img of=/dev/sdb
2:
I just ran what the command lines said
3:
The last command didn't work when I ejected or safely removed hardware and it didn't have an unmount option so when I plugged it in and tried the last command again I assumed it was never mounted
4:
I was trying 11.04 but I deleted it after and I am now trying it again with 10.10 and that file will be in my downloads (as .iso)

[rumbero]

I just ran what the command lines said

So, i guess you should be happy it didn't say /dev/sda then ...

According to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Supported ... s#X_Series, the X40 can't boot from PCMCIA.
Unless someone more knowledgable does provide evidence against that, i'd simply assume that this unfortunately holds true.

[CDWells]

ok well thanks for the help and I guess that /dev/sda would have been my HDD?