[wplug] Boot drive work around

[Michael Semcheski]

So what I ended up doing was dismantling a USB hard drive, which is
basically an IDE hard drive and an IDE-USB bridge.  I plugged the CD
drive into that and was able to boot from the USB-CD device.

My eventual goal is to have it run Windows under QEMU (which is much
preferred to the other way around.)  I want to have the Windows
install running on one console, and Gnome on another console.

The USB drive I was using when I first tried the install was borrowed,
so I  don't know whether there was a problem with the way I set it up,
or with the key, or with the Thinkpad.  I don't like to have the same
problem twice, so I took the opportunity to order a USB drive of my
own yesterday -- partly for these situations, and partly because I
want to have a 'swiss army' type drive ready for the unexpected.



On 10/25/07, Pat Barron <pat at tiderium.com> wrote:
> Yeah, the X41 should boot from an external USB drive (either hard drive,
> or optical).  In theory, I think you could boot Fedora off of an external
> USB optical drive, install it on to an external USB hard drive, and then
> boot off of that hard drive when you want to run Fedora.

> Or you could just do what I do - leave the Thinkpad itself running
> Windows, and then run Fedora under it via QEMU.  Though yeah, I know,
> that's crufty - but it works, and it was the path of least resistance for
> me (especially since I need my Thinkpad to continue to run Windows, for
> other reasons...).