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    Protege R100 Boot Help Please

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by mr_bankai, Apr 8, 2008.

  1. mr_bankai

    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    Im trying to dualboot my laptop with xp and linux. Unfortunately I cant get the unit to boot from the external dvd drive.

    I've changed the bios settings to boot from hdd last and even tried f12 and selected the cdrom. In the latter the computer hangs and the former has no effect. I'm running BIOS 1.60 which should support external usb drives. I think i read somewhere that I need a the PCMICA cd-rom drive to load but I thought the BIOS update to 1.60 was suppsoed to fix that(unless loading the restore discs). I dont know how to get the boot image onto an SD card(pretty sure i saw that option too but i could be mistaken). Im open to any suggestions.

    My second question: i noticed that in the BIOS i have the option of booting from the PCMCIA slot. If i plugged in a CF card reader there and loaded the OS onto the card could i then just use the HDD as additional storage or am i overlooking something. I only ask because the HDD runs at a dismally slow 4200rpm...(or if i remembered correctly and there was the option to boot from sd then scrap the above and replace with sd option :D )

    Thanks in advance guys for all your help!

    PS. the sd slot is non-SDHC compatible huh? (most likely considering it's so old) and does anyone have the read/write spec for it?
     
    mr_bankai, Apr 8, 2008
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