we were discussing it a little on irc channel so i decided to make it a feature request advantages? - plop boot can recognize usb devices, boot cdrom or boot other partition, so if user by mistake will leave cd\usb media he will be able to continue booting without need of change it for reboot. also as it is more flexible this can provide more ways of using such disk. so the proper setup can lead to better work with mageia. and maybe some kind of usb stick installer (with using just few scripts) can be made Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
URL: (none) => http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html
Can you document: - how to set up it - its config file - how to read back its config file
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #1) > Can you document: > - how to set up it > - its config file > - how to read back its config file @ ra oeai Can you please reply?
CC: (none) => marja11
maybe grub2 or lilo already can do same things especially with more included modules. there's a full description of how to include it for lilo and grub, it uses plpcfgbt tool for default configuration and i'm not sure where permanent changes stored. everything described on the site and the best way to integrate (i thought) - is in asking main developer Features USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI) CD/DVD boot without BIOS support (IDE) PCMCIA CardBus support to enable boot from USB PC-Cards Floppy boot Different profiles for operating systems Define up to 16 partitions No extra partition for the boot manager Hidden boot, maybe you have a rescue system installed and the user should not see that there is another system installed Boot countdown Hide partitions Password protection for the computer and the boot manager setup Backup of partition table data Text mode user interface 80x50 Graphical user interface 640x480, 800x600, 1024x786, 1280x1024 MBR partition table edit Start of the boot manager from hard disk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD Starting from Windows boot menu Starting from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network) It can be used as PCI option ROM in your BIOS Access the whole USB hard disk (up to 2TB) even when the bios has a 128 GiB limit You can run the boot manager over the network Start the network card bootrom from the boot manager to boot from the network
Thx for replying :-) However, I have the feeling that tv's question was for more ready-to-use information: even if he is more than smart enough to figure everything out, he lacks time. Leaving it to Thierry to remove the NEEDINFO keyword (or not).
Assigning to ISO builders group for decision.
Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild
PLoP is a proprietary boot manager. I do not think it'd be a good idea to make our boot process for ISOs dependent on it. It also cannot boot Linux natively (must chainload GRUB2 for it). If we really need a flexible boot manager, GRUB 2 is certainly an option that we have the tooling in place to use already.
CC: (none) => ngompa13
Indeed, no point spending time on a proprietary boot manager. https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/licence.html
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX