Symptom
Boot from a USB hard disk drive fails from some non-IBM systems. During boot a blank screen or a message that the boot attempt failed is displayed.

Affected configuration
IBM systems supported by IBM Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore, running Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP, configured with IBM Rapid Restore Ultra

View the list of systems supported by IBM Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore.

Solution
IBM is not aware of any solution to this problem.