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Gaara

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fragmented plpbt.bin?
« on: June 16, 2009, 12:18:46 PM »
First of all thank you for this wonderful program :)

My problem is the plpbt.bin is supposedly fragmented. plpgenbtldr says that. But I defragmented the full C: with Diskeeper as well just the plpbt.bin file with Contig. Contig says either the file is not fragmented or it is unable to (defragment).

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What should I do? I really need to boot from USB.

Thanks.

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2009, 16:10:18 PM »
hi,
please post the output of plpgenbtldr

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2009, 21:05:15 PM »
Thank you the prompt reply.

Here is the output:

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2009, 21:18:29 PM »
plpgenbtldr is not perfect.

try this:
Download and run DiskView from http://www.milannemec.com/diskview.html, run it and use location of file, select c:\plpbt.bin, use the value at LCN and run plpgenbtldr lcn=[your value].

Gaara

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2009, 23:20:40 PM »
Success! You my friend are a life saver :)

btw, that link doesn't work. You accidentally included the comma in the link.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2009, 23:23:18 PM by Gaara »

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2009, 23:28:14 PM »
i am happy to hear that it works now :)

you are right, the comma is the problem with the link
for others, here is the link without the comma http://www.milannemec.com/diskview.html

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 04:07:50 AM »
My big mouth. So now when I select "PLoP Boot Manager" and hit enter, my PC restarts...

Any ideas?

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 10:26:57 AM »
hmm, did you move the plpbt.bin file?

please post the output of diskview and the lcn value

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2009, 13:02:21 PM »
No. I had not moved the file but now I've done it all again. Tried regular method > fragmentation error. So DiskView gives me LCN and then plpbtldr lcn=value

Here is the output screen of both:


Oh and btw, my "system drive" is indeed C (boot.ini is in C and that's where I added the line) but the current in-use OS is in D. Does that affect anything?

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2009, 17:13:50 PM »
the only important thing is that plpbt.bin is on the first harddisk

a workaround is to use grub4dos and plpbt.bin. then no plpgenbtldr and plpbtldr.bin is required

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2009, 20:02:25 PM »
Okay this is going a bit over my head now. I'm gonna give it one more go. I got Grub4DOS and installed it on the "whole MBR" of hd0 using Grub4DOS Installer. I'm actually a little concerned I jumped into it and my PC won't reboot the next time :D Let's see.

1. plpbt.bin is in C.
2. menu.lst contains grub4dos's menu?
3. Definitely need to add grldr? or grldr.mbr?
4. Don't I have to add something to boot.ini?

My basic idea of a menu.lst
Code: [Select]
color blue/green yellow/red white/magenta white/magenta
timeout 30
default /default

title PLoP Boot Manager
fallback 1
<What goes here?>


*EDIT: haha! Just what I thought. It didn't boot up. Fortunately, it asked me to boot from the previous mbr.
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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2009, 21:50:00 PM »
installing grub4dos to the mbr was not required. its possible to start grub4dos with the boot.ini.

for menu.lst see here http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#rungrub

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2009, 22:22:00 PM »
Grub started okay but when I hit enter on "Start PLoP Boot Manager", it said

Error 1: Filename must be an absolute pathname or blocklist.

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Re: fragmented plpbt.bin?
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2009, 13:02:53 PM »
I know I'm good  ;)
Finally got PLoP to work. I was using kernel plpbt.bin but Grub4DOS needs absolute path (Error 1).

Did some Googling and found a great step by step guide by Diddy @ Boot-Land for absolute beginners like myself.

Changed to kernel (hd0,0)/plpbt.bin and wallah! PLoP started, showed all the booting options. Now I'm gonna go make a bootable pen drive.

A BIG Thanks for the tremendous help.