Forum: USBoot

on Thu 30 of July, 2009 08:08 CEST, by Zosso

hi, is there a kicker CD that will allow a USBoot drive to boot in systems that bios does allow for booting usb devices?

I have another question

is there a full disk encryption program that works best with USBoot?

thanks

on Thu 30 of July, 2009 11:31 CEST, by admin

> hi, is there a kicker CD that will allow a USBoot drive to boot in systems that bios does allow for booting usb devices?

There have been experimental studies with USBoot in this setting but there would be required more development & testing before considering this a mature release.

> is there a full disk encryption program that works best with USBoot?

In general TrueCrypt seems to work.

Gerd

on Thu 30 of July, 2009 18:48 CEST, by MacDef

> hi, is there a kicker CD that will allow a USBoot drive to boot in systems that bios does allow for booting usb devices?
>
>
> I have another question
>
> is there a full disk encryption program that works best with USBoot?
>
>
> thanks

PloP Boot Manager does the trick for non-USB Boot in Bios you can get it there : http://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.3.zip

MacDef

on Sat 01 of Aug., 2009 03:41 CEST, by Zosso

> In general TrueCrypt seems to work.
>
> Gerd

do you have any specific information regarding its use? like would you install truecrypt and/or encrypt the OS before phase-I or after phase-III?

Thanks Gerd, BTW You are The Man!

> PloP Boot Manager does the trick for non-USB Boot in Bios you can get it there : http://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.3.zip
>
> MacDef

thanks I'll check it out.

on Sun 17 of Jan., 2010 21:04 CET, by Zosso

does anyone have success with using plop and USBoot on system bios that does not support USB booting, if so how do you have plop set up for this?

I have installed it (plop) to the local hard drive using the windows boot menu and I am able to select USB device for boot.

USBoot starts then freezes after the last text portion ("observe messages" is selected.)

should I reinstall plop with diferent method other than with the windows boot menu?

thanks

on Tue 19 of Jan., 2010 16:42 CET, by admin

> does anyone have success with using plop and USBoot on system bios that does not support USB booting, if so how do you have plop set up for this?

I have done any testing with 'PLoP' until now.

> I have installed it (plop) to the local hard drive using the windows boot menu and I am able to select USB device for boot.
>
> USBoot starts then freezes after the last text portion ("observe messages" is selected.)

To be more precisely it is the native XP bootloader that will try to load the boot stage kernelmode modules after selecting an option from the boot menu. If the system simply 'hangs' after choosing the option "observe messages" without printing any other message there seems to be some kind of problem with PLoP and the actual system's configuration.

Gerd

on Thu 28 of Jan., 2010 07:33 CET, by Zosso

crossposted here and Plop forum:

I started fresh with USBoot and made a USB OS from the HP that doesnt support USB booting. on a USB HDD, primary partition, NTFS which also had a second partition (FAT32)

reporting now SUCCESS with Plop booting USBoot XP USB HDD on machine w/out BIOS Support!

however, it will only boot the USBoot XP made from the same machine. I can not get other USB XPs made with USBoot on other machines to boot in this HP even with plop.

also after booting the USBoot XP made in the HP into another machine and installing drivers for that machine it still worked in the HP but then I booted it and installed it in yet another machine and installed that machines drivers to the USBoot XP USB then tried to boot it with plop in the original HP again and now it doesnt boot there??

certainly a driver conflict but no idea how to solve it.

I plan to spent some time learning Ngines and Dietmars methods when I have a chance so I can learn more and be more able to resolve issues.

the good thing is, I now can Plop into USBoot on machine non USB Boot supported BIOS's!

pretty exciting! couldnt have done it without people like Elmar and Gerd that is for sure. You guys are WIN!

THANKS

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