hello how are you doing if anyone could give me some help id really appreciate it i downloaded plop version .7 unzipped and used the readme instructions at the end of this text for a hard disk installation i followed them to a tee i first started the plpgenbtldr and it told me my file was fragmented so i got contig and defragged the file followed the rest of the directions restarted and it just boots to windows everytime no boot menu did i miss something somewhere ialso downloaded plop .8 and burned the larger of the two isos to disk using power iso and restarted nothing again where am i going wrong anyway any help would be appreciated and thanks for taking the time to read!!!!!
create a directory like c:\plop or whatever you want
2) copy plpgenbtldr.exe and plpbt.bin to c:\plop
3) start "plpgenbtldr"
this program will search the file "plpbt.bin" in the current directory.
plpgenbtldr generates the file "plpbtldr.bin".
if all is ok, then add the boot manager to the boot menu. see below.
problems:
plpbt.bin must not be fragmented. if plpbt.bin is fragmented, then download
'contig' from microsoft.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx use 'contig plpbt.bin' to defrag plpbt.bin.
4) Adding to the boot menu
4.1) Windows XP
add the line below to your c:\boot.ini
c:\plop\plpbtldr.bin="PLoP Boot Manager"
4.2) Windows VISTA
run notepad as administrator
create a file c:\boot.ini and add the following lines
[boot loader]
[operating systems]
c:\plop\plpbtldr.bin="PLoP Boot Manager"
Now you should be able to start the PLoP Boot Manager from your Windows
boot menu.
