Boot from USB without BIOS Support via PLoP CD

Boot from USB without BIOS Support; In the following tutorial, we explain how to create a PLoP Boot Manager CD that can be used to boot from your USB Flash Drive. This is useful for computer systems that do not support booting from USB in BIOS.  The PLoP Boot Manager created by Elmar Hanlhofer, works by first loading essential USB drivers,  CD/DVD drivers, and Hard Disk Drivers. The user is then presented with a (Boot Menu) menu of possible boot devices detected by PLoP. The user can then proceed to select a device to try and boot from.

PLoP Boot Manager Featurs:

• CD/DVD/Floppy boot without BIOS support
• USB boot without BIOS support (UHCI, OHCI and EHCI)
• Different profiles for operating systems should not see that there is another system installed
• Boot countdown
• Hide partitions
• Hidden boot, maybe you have a rescue system installed and the user
• No extra partition for the boot manager
• Password protection for the computer and the boot manager setup
• Define up to 16 partitions
• Backup of partition table data
• Textmode user interface 80×50 and Graphic user interface 640×480, 800×600, 1024×786, 1280×1024
• MBR partition table edit
• Starting from Windows boot menu and from LILO, GRUB, Syslinux, Isolinux, Pxelinux (network)
• Start of the boot manager from harddisk, floppy, USB, CD, DVD

 PLoP Boot Manager (Boot Menu)

Distribution Home Page: PLoP Boot Manager
How to Create a PLoP Boot Manager CD

1. Download PLoP Boot manager, and extract the files from the Zip to your Desktop
2. Burn the plpbt.iso to a CD using your favorite CD/DVD burning software
3. Insert your Newly created PLoP Boot CD and your  pre-prepared Linux USB Flash Drive
4. Reboot your PC and set your System BIOS to boot from the CD

If all goes as planned, you should now be presented with an alternate Boot Manager similar to the one pictured above that can be used to boot your USB Flash Drive or other device.

Note: In some cases the Flash Drive will actually appear as a hard disk.

You can visit the PLoP website for more information and guides about using this amazing boot manager software.