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First post, by GabrielKnight123

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I was having troubles with XFDISK boot manager so I uninstalled it and installed Plop from a floppy but after install (install says everything went good) I press number 9 for a reboot and I get to my DDO software for the HDD with the "press spacebar to boot a floppy or C for CDrom drive" and it gets stuck there, I have both Dos 6.21 and Win 95 already installed and I can use SFDISK or XFDISK and see both partitions for FAT16 Dos and FAT32 95, only one is active the other inactive or hidden I have tried both setting inactive/hidden but the same thing happens, im using Plop 5.0.15 and used the image file for the floppy from the install folder with an image writer for the floppy disk, I dont know the system requirements for Plop but my system is a 486DX2 66MHz with 16MB ram I have tried the text version in Plops install menu but it still hangs. I have tried uninstalling Plop and repairing the master boot record in XFDISK and then reinstalling Plop but a no go.

Reply 1 of 5, by gdjacobs

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I'm guessing your DDO won't cooperate with PLOP.

All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder

Reply 2 of 5, by GabrielKnight123

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I used another hard drive 10GB but the Bios only sees 504MB without DDO and made two partitions both FAT16 and I still have the same problem so maybe the DDO is not the problem.

Reply 3 of 5, by GabrielKnight123

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On Plops forum someone said the minimum ram needed is 18MB just in case someone else tries this on their system.

Reply 4 of 5, by zuldan

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I’m trying to get Plop working on my PCchips M919 with a AMD 5x86 133 with a Promise Ultra66. Unfortunately even with 32MB of ram I cannot get Plop to start.

Does anyone recommend any other boot managers like Plop? I need to boot between DOS and Windows 95 each on their own hard drive.

Reply 5 of 5, by zuldan

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Just a follow up. I got XFDISK (https://xfdisk.sourceforge.net/) working perfectly with the Promise Ultra66. DOS is in a CF Card and Windows 95 on PATA hard drive.