toughbook booting from SD card

Does any toughbook boot from a sd card if which ones?

 

Well that's a good question. I don't think any of my do. Never seen it in any of the bios.

 

I never had a Toughbook able to boot from a SD card. My Motion C5 tablet will.

 

Kind of wondering why you would want to boot from a SD card.

 

I was not going to ask why. Odds are I probably don't want to know.
Guess is that he does not have a HDD caddy or drive and wants to try and use a SD card he already has.

 

For travel i want to bring a toughbook with windows for my wife but for me i use linux. On my cf-30 i swap out hard drives i have 3 caddies 1)XP 2) win7 and 3) duel boot ubuntu and kali.
So hard drives are big and sd cards are small.

 

There's a 16GB USB stick that will fit inside with the back door shut. I tie a string to it otherwise it gets lost.

 

I have a 64GB Stick that does as well... or it does on the CF-30 and CF31.

See my sig for details.

But, I wish I could boot from the 64GB SDHC, I would keep a backup image of the OS and all programs there so that I could re-image my SSD in the field in case of a major meltdown! That would be even more bulletproof!

 

You could also carry one of the very small usb's that Sadlmkr referenced above, here is an example:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mini-usb-flash-drive
You would then only need to make it a persistent usb drive with your operating system. One example on how to do this is found here:
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/live-usb-persistence
What persistence does is allow you to create a bootable copy of an iso that you've customized. All your settings including your wireless etc. are saved. You just boot her up instead of your main hard drive and away you go.

 

like these

 

Before I went to SSD this is what I used for Readyboost. 32gb give you more bang for you buck.

 

I had 3 of those micro drives in my CF30. Two in the rear ports and one in a mini pcie to usb adapter in the Gobi slot.
With a minor setting change in the BIOS so the boot menu screen comes up, You could boot off any one of them. you choose.

 

Thanks i like the idea of the small usb drive. I think that will work for me

 

And a large SD card to save documents????

Shawn is the "thread loop" bent over on the inboard mini-stick? Mine seems to put pressure on the door. The outboard one is clear.

Cleve uses dental floss for the thread. I use saddle stitching thread. It will cut you before it breaks.

When I bought these they were cheaper than 8GB. ???

 

thread loop?

On the inboard one in the rear, I shaved the black part of the stick slightly. Then I trimmed the door slightly.

 

O.K. that works.

Dremel plus diamond wheel cures all, yes? I try to keep them stock but for home/personal using machines all bets are off.

I have a CF-53 that needs a hole punched in the door. Those 16GB MINI-STICKS are ham-dandy.

 

I belive mine does (in bios there is a "SD removable device thing" option) I'll check when I get home (at 3 and a Half PM GMT+1) it's a CF19 Mk.2

Edit: I checked, apparently not, even though I always believed it did, it does USB HDD, Hard Disk, USB FDD (that's cool), USB KEY, USB CDD, USB LS120 (an old magnetic storage device) and PCI LAN (network boot)