Recently I found out, that the thinkpad x30 is capable to boot of usbbootsticks. On http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/sfs/index-en.html I found under "Problems and Solutions" the sentence:
This Method feels like it works sometimes and sometimes not, but if it is not booting of my normal harddrive but from usbstick, than I get the Error: "Bootup failed" or something like that.

The usbstick is perfectly ok, I reformatted it twice and dd sad nothing unusual ...

Had someone similar problems and knows a solution? I could try PXE boot, but usbstick booting looks much easier.

Thank you for any hints and tips!

y0shi

What distro do you have on your usbstick?

Here's a good resource for IBM Thinkpads: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

oh I thougt there is only one usb installer for slackware, sorry.
I meant the one made by Alien BOB

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackboot/usb/

But probably this is a hardware thing?

I have the feeling some reinstall of a master boot record could fix this problem? I was reading this: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/03...-flash-device/

But now I don't know how to get this mbr package (with install-mbr inside) I can't find any sources or packages. Does anyone know where the sources are on the web, or is this some debian specific thing?

Thanks in advance!

y0shi

I don't where you can get the Ubuntu one from. There's one that will run under GNU/Linux called MBR Utility here: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/dow...e-software.htm