Windows Specific Multi-Booting, USB

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

The PLoP bootmanager is a small tool to boot different operating systems. Its possible to boot an operating system from harddisk, floppy disk or cdrom. No extra partition is needed.

Linux: the bootmanager DOES NOT replace lilo or grub, you still need them to load the kernel. My favorite is lilo.

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18045&view=findpost&p=119644

it seems like that next version of PLOP: http://www.plop.at/bootmanager_en.html

planned for next quarter will have support for booting from USB without using BIOS!

documented on: Aug 20 2006, by jaclaz

I played with PLoP. It's not as versatile as Grub for several reasons.

First, it has to be installed and from floppy. Once it's installed it's harder to remove than Grub if you get your menus messed up. It's not that logical to me how to add an item to menu. I lost my Windows XP boot option and I couldn't get it back on. It kept booting my 3rd partition which is bartpe.

Adding to your own menu is a bit more difficult and # of characters is limited. I like Grub's menu.lst method.

documented on: Aug 26 2006, by spacesurfer

Whoa! A bigger problem using PLoP. If anyone has any experience with this, here what I did to screw up my system:

I used the floppy image of PLoP and loaded it with Grub. I installed it to test it out. As I mentioned in the post earlier, it didn't meet my expectations. So, I tried to uninstall it. But I don't know where it saved the back up since I loaded it from floppy image.

Well, now all I have is a C:\ drive with no data when I start BartPE from CD. I can't see the 3 partitions that I had on the HDD.

How can I restore my partitions? I haven't touched the HDD—all the data should be there. I just need to restore my partitions.

documented on: Aug 26 2006, by spacesurfer