Booting from the pcmcia

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Booting from the pcmcia

#1 Post by dmdsoftware » Mon May 28, 2007 1:16 pm

I was wondering if it is possible to boot an X60 from the pcmcia slot. I wanted to run a microdrive from a pcmcia to compact flash converter, and I wanted to evaluate if it is possible to boot from this setup.

Anyone give this a try?
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#2 Post by sugo » Mon May 28, 2007 4:14 pm

X60/s BIOS doesn't support PC card slot as a boot device.
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#3 Post by xtypestereotype » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:59 am

sugo wrote:X60/s BIOS doesn't support PC card slot as a boot device.
Are you positive about this? Did previous models allow you to? I have successfully booted of the PCMCIA adapter on older Thinkpads... T2x etc... (Once from a pcmcia-ide cd adapter and also from a ~30MB old-school pcmcia hard disk)

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