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Title: MacBook 2.1, Plop .img file on a partition, is this possible please?
Post by: liviococcia on October 06, 2011, 09:23:39 AM

Hello Members
I use a Plop bootloader CD in my MacBook (version 2.1) to boot an external solid-state hardrive with Zorin core 5 OS on it. This works great but I worry that I'm using the DVD drive alot just for booting up.

Is it possible to create a partition on the MacBooks hard drive and then have Plop run from that partition, like an .img file.

Any simple ideas would be great, as I'm very much a novice of Mac's or Linux.

Kind regards
Livio

Title: Re: MacBook 2.1, Plop .img file on a partition, is this possible please?
Post by: Elmar on October 06, 2011, 09:54:39 AM

hi,
i have no mac, but a user told me he is using refit -> efigrub -> plpbt.bin

regards
elmar

Title: Re: MacBook 2.1, Plop .img file on a partition, is this possible please?
Post by: liviococcia on October 08, 2011, 10:34:15 AM

Thanks Elmar, and sorry for the slow reply.

I've been hunting around the web, and everything either seems either complicated to understand, follow, or do, or then gives so many problems trying to get it to work.

Is there really no simple way of just having whats contained on a Plop CD load from a hard disk partition of a Mac, instead of it running from a CD?

Yes i understand reFIT can act as a kind of bootable BIO's, but it's always seems GRUB is the complicated headache to get over.

kind regards

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General Category => Boot Managers => Topic started by: liviococcia on October 06, 2011, 09:23:39 AM