cant get plop to work

traksta15 · October 12, 2011, 20:16:14 PM

im trying to plop my gateway e4600 so i can boot a new os via usb, when I add it to the boot menu it shows up as "windows 2000 or plop boot manager" when I choose plop boot manager it tells me that "windows 2000 root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" is missing, but when I choose windows 2000 it boots normally, this is a 2nd hard drive I have but after adding the boot manager to my original hard drive it wont boot at all and I get the above error no matter if i choose to boot plop or windows 2000. Whats my problem? Thanks guys!!

Elmar · October 12, 2011, 20:33:28 PM

starting the boot manager with the windows boot menu from the second hard disk is not supported

elmar

traksta15 · October 12, 2011, 23:08:53 PM

so what do I do? the hard drive its currently on is a spare I had that also had windows 2000 on it, its the only one installed on the computer.

traksta15 · October 14, 2011, 18:58:54 PM

bump

traksta15 · October 19, 2011, 21:14:13 PM

bump, anyone?

Elmar · October 20, 2011, 06:45:54 AM

start the boot manager from cd,floppy,network, grub4dos, ....

traksta15 · October 28, 2011, 08:17:30 AM

You're my hero! I got it installed and it now boots from cd to the boot manager, pull the cd out and it comes up to the boot manager where I can choose floppy, cd, usb etc etc, but nothing actually happens. I tried keying u, ctrl + u and nothing happens? The usb flashdrive is hooked up, the other keys work so I know my comps not frozen, I can do everything except initiate usb booting. What should I do next?

Elmar · October 28, 2011, 08:22:59 AM

Quote from: traksta15 on October 28, 2011, 08:17:30 AM
What should I do next?

describe what text you see on the screen when you try to boot usb