Plop hangs when trying to boot external USB HDD

[Artie]

Hello,

My list of hard drives is Windows XP on primary IDE master drive (/sda), Fedora 15 on primary IDE slave drive (/sdb). I want to add Debian 6 on external USB hard drive (/sdc).

PC boots from /sda, where I have Fedora's GRUB installed in MBR of /sda. I have installed Grub for Debian 6 on the MBR of /sdc.

I inserted plpbt.bin in /boot on /sdb. I added it as a menu entry in grub.conf. I loaded Plop. I selected USB option. It found the external USB HDD. Then it hangs.

I have read the warning for Linux users to:

Install LILO or GRUB to the boot sector of your Linux instead of the Master Boot Record (MBR). The Plop Boot Manager is not a Linux loader and cannot start Linux without LILO, GRUB, Syslinux and similar!

Unfortunately, I don't understand what this means. How can I boot the USB device?

[Elmar]

I inserted plpbt.bin in /boot on /sdb. I added it as a menu entry in grub.conf. I loaded Plop. I selected USB option. It found the external USB HDD. Then it hangs.

what do you see on the screen?

I have read the warning for Linux users to:

Install LILO or GRUB to the boot sector of your Linux instead of the Master Boot Record (MBR). The Plop Boot Manager is not a Linux loader and cannot start Linux without LILO, GRUB, Syslinux and similar!

Unfortunately, I don't understand what this means. How can I boot the USB device?

this is only important when you install the boot manager to the hard disk. when you start it from grub, then you can ignore it.

elmar

[Artie]

Hello,

Before you read the messages from plop, I'd like to mention that I installed Debian on the MBR of the USB hard drive. Should I install it on the boot sector of the partition as well?

What I see on the screen before it hangs is the following:

LOADING EHC1 DRIVER
SEARCHING ON HOSTS
HOST 1
PORT1 : DEVICE CONNECTED
HDS 72808
0PLAT20
LOADING BOOT SECTOR...