Booting from PCMCIA cards?

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mikey pizano · #1 Post by **mikey pizano** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:33 pm

is it possible to boot my T20 from a PCMCIA card?

Six_Shooter · #2 Post by **Six_Shooter** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:25 pm

How do you propose to do that?

Do you have a PCMCIA floopy or optical interface? Or are you asking about USB PCMCIA device?

mikey pizano · #3 Post by **mikey pizano** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:56 pm

in this instance: a sd card in an adapter. I have a spare 256 I want to put [censored] Small Linux onto to mess with.

frankiepankie · #4 Post by **frankiepankie** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:56 am

I believe older Thinkpads (t2x, t30) can't do this. Newer ThinkPads: T4x, T6x can do this.

But i don't know this for sure.

JohnW · #5 Post by **JohnW** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:18 pm

I wish I can boot from PCMCIA as well. Currently for my T23 I boot from USB into my Linux system on a encrypted partition on the HD. The problem is that USB1.1 is just too slow and BIOS does not recognize the CF card adapter on startup.

Robbyrobot · #6 Post by **Robbyrobot** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:18 am

Not sure if this will work, but you might try Smart BootManager.

Booting from PCMCIA cards?

Booting from PCMCIA cards?

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