How to avoid loading plop?

Started by Norf, October 17, 2010, 11:01:22 AM

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Norf

Hi all,

I've got a huge problem. I've installed plop successfully, after that I've installed Paragon Partition Manager in order to create a new partition for Ubuntu. I've runned the program and created it (well, at least i think so). After that my laptop restarted and plop loaded, but whithout menu, only flying stars. After few seconds laptop hangs on... every time I want to load the system (yeap, plop loads before choosing either I want my Vista or whatever). So... how to avoid loading plop? The only thing I can do before plop is loading BIOS. Maybe the program needs to be uninstalled somehow? I can't boot from USB (which is obvious) AND from DVD drive (something's broken)... Any idea what to do?

Elmar

are you able to boot from network with your bios, or boot from floppy, or from anything else than the hard disk? if not then the last chance is to put the hard disk into another pc and fix it there.

regards
elmar

Norf

It's a laptop, no floppys. What gives me booting from network? I've heard, that I need a server to do that, but I don't have any. So I can boot only from HDD. I can't remove hard drive from a laptop myself, I guess.

Elmar

you need no special server, you need only a second pc with a network card and a crossed network cable. and the other pc has to run some software
http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html#pxew
or
http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html#pxel

what that helps? you can run the boot manager installer from the other pc over the network and uninstall the boot manager. or start a linux over the network and fix some stuff. when you only want to use the boot manager uninstall program then you need not the whole network boot setup.