Hi Trung,
thanks for reporting your experience, it may really be helpful to
people with your PC! You can edit the ThinkPad X220 page you linked
and write your method to boot from USB, so it can be used as a
workaround until UEFI is properly supported.
Greetings
Alessandro
2013/7/22, Trung Tran <gottheham@???>:
> Hi everyone
>
> Newbie here just trying to do my part of improving TAILS. I am very
> ignorant when it comes to computers and privacy, so no flaming....
>
> Anyways regarding the issue
> https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/#index7h2 and
> https://tails.boum.org/bugs/ThinkPad_X220_vs_GPT/
>
> I have known for a long time now that my Lenvo ThinkPad E320 cannot boot
> from USB, so i carry a USB CD drive around with my laptop (something about
> UEFI whatever that is). Having no persistence is annoying so I also carry
> around a USB as well.
> So today I was booting to TAILS connected my CD drive as normal, I rebooted
> and forgot i ALSO left my TAILS USB attached to the second USB slot. By the
> time it booted to TAILS it asked me for my persistence password. I found
> this rather odd knowing that my CD drive cannot have persistence. My USB
> stick was also flashing. so i disconnected my CD drive and TAILS continued
> to run. I entered my persistence password and indeed it had booted from my
> USB. I tried to boot it again without the CD drive it didnt boot. I tried
> it again with both the CD and USB attached and each time it would boot to
> my persistent USB.
>
> So in a sense accidentally leaving my TAILS USB in allowed it to boot on
> the USB, but it won't do this without a CD drive even though the CD drive
> can be disconnected when it successfully boots. Is there anyone else with
> Lenovo Laptops or UEFI problems (whatever it is lol) that has also
> experienced this? Anyone able to test?
>
> I'm not sure how valuable this information is or if the world has known
> about it for eons, but I'm just trying to do my part. Hopefully it can give
> some insight into a solution even if it's a temporary one. If you need more
> information, feel free to email me.
