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Plop Boot Manager
- Oxodao 2y agoPlop is an excellent software but I'm not sure it's still that useful. I remember using it to boot to usb sticks on bios that did not support it years ago. That was really cool
- reginald78 2y agoI used it to allow booting from USB on ESXi VMs, which (at the time anyway) didn't support this. I remember how ridiculous it was passing through an unraid USB, booting from a plop iso which then handed off the boot to the USB. It was slow but did work.
- dmitrygr 2y ago> I'm not sure it's still that useful Until you need to boot an old x86 system for some reason
- rkagerer 2y agoLove the no-no sense, approachable documentation at that page.
- rkagerer 2y ago*no-nonsense
- ashleyn 2y agoUsed this to boot from usb on systems that didn't support usb boot back in the day. Good stuff.
- pathartl 2y agoFond memories. I was a teen and gifted a laptop that had USB ports, a floppy drive, and no working CD drive. I used Plop on a floppy to boot off USB and install Windows XP.
- johnwbyrd 2y agoThank you Plop, but nowadays we have a profusion of blessings, including VenToy, iVenToy, and netboot.xyz.
- Gormo 2y agoAren't all of those just prebuilt images that use Syslinux? Plop is itself an actual boot manager.
- lproven 2y agoWell, yes, but while Ventoy is great and I am a big fan, it has a totally different use case. In principle they could work great together, which demonstrates the almost total lack of overlap. Ventoy is for making multiboot USB keys. Plop is for making PCs boot from USB even if their firmware can't. So, you could use Plop on a floppy or CDR to make a PC start Ventoy, and then use Ventoy to choose which old-style x86/32-BIOS distro to install.