Every now and then I discover a tool
that’s well and truly worth adding to my toolkit. Elmar Hanlhofer's
Plop boot manager is one my latest discovery’s.
Plop Boot Manager is a tiny 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. This is great for older hardware that doesn’t
have an option to boot from usb built into the bios.
The more I poke around on Elmar's site
the more I realize how important documentation is. Elmar has done a
great job of documenting his development of Boot Manager a task that
I find a lot of programmers forget or simply don’t do. After years
of developing websites and applications I find myself coming full
circle, my learning returning to the fundamentals the basics but now
I see why planing and documenting are king.
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