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Use plop to boot puppy by usb-drives in linux pcs...
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 431 |
Go to: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html and download plpbt-5.0.14.zip. Click on the archive and extract plpbt.bin in your /boot directory. 1)If you have grub-legacy edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst inserting:
where X and Y refers to the partition which contains your grub: X is equal to 0 and Y is equal to (Z-1) if your main partition is sdaZ. 2)If you have grub2 (ubuntu grub-pc...) open with geany a new file and copy as its content:
and save it as 12_plpbt in /etc/grub.d. X and Y refers to the partition which contains your grub2: X is 0 and Y now have the same number of your sdaY main partition. Then in console:
Now using grub you have at menu plpbt (plop bootmanager) which helps you to boot usb drives. Plpbt booted in my case a logical partition in an external usb hd in which I installed a linux distribution with persistence by unetbootin. My bios refused to boot that partition. |
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 431 |
I followed the procedure for grub-legacy in a netbook in which I installed grub4dos. The netbook's bios does not support Sd card booting. By plop bootmanager I was able to boot a Sd card in which I installed puppy by Universal Installer choosing usb boot in plop menu. |
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rokytnji
 Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 1134 Location: Pecos/ Texas |
It would not happen to be a Acer Aspire One zg5 ? Would it?
I have been getting by with using a USB to SD card ADAPTER is why I mention this. As USB boot support is supported but the sd card slot is not. |
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 431 |
The netbook I used in my trial was a Samsung NB30. |
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Dromeno
Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 534 |
Does this work for Grub4Dos as well? |
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Dromeno
Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 534 |
sorry, I should have asked does this work in Grub4Dos in the same was as in legacy grub. i.e. by adding
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 431 |
Yes. Grub4dos is compatible with the same menu entries of grub legacy. Look where is your menu.lst and there create a /boot dir where you'll put plpbt.bin. X and Y refer to the partition where is menu.lst and /boot directory. |
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 431 |
I had trouble to boot by plop a unetbootin install in a usb hd. Some timeout was needed at some stage of boot process which freezed. The trick is to select USB in plop menu by cursor and type Alt-u instead of Enter. Plop will ask Skip or Boot device taking time. Type one time "s" (Skip): plop will ask again for Skip or Boot device. This time type Enter and now I had success to boot. This behaviour of plop is due to usb devices attached to your pc which can change the normal timing of boot process. |
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