t30 Bios will not allow usb drive boot

[swifty]

I have an IBM T30 and I want to run a linux distro from a usb drive. XP loads fine fron the HDD and I have looked at the BIOS and selected "removable storage" - I have the latest bios in the machine.

The option in Bios is CDROM, HDD, Removable stor, boot agent.

I read somewhere that enabling usb in BIOS (which I did but only indicates booting from a USB CDROM or FLOPPY) and choosing removable storage would allow me to do it, but no success. I searched the forum but have not found a solution.

Anyone have been able to do this? 2366-86U is the model I have with the latest embeded controller program.