The Plop Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. The boot manager has a built-in ide cdrom and usb driver to access that hardware without the help/need of a bios. You can boot the operating systems from hard disk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start the boot manager from floppy, CD, network and there are many more ways to start the boot manager. You can install the boot manager on your hard disk. There is no extra partition required for the boot manager.
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
