Plop Boot Manager v5.0

The Plop Boot Manager is a small program with unbelievable many features.

Here is a list of features, but you can do more...

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
Textmode user interface 80x50
Graphical user interface 640x480, 800x600, 1024x786, 1280x1024
MBR partition table edit
Start of the boot manager from harddisk, 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 networkcard bootrom from the boot manager to boot from the network

plopKexec

PlopKexec is a Linux Kernel based boot manager for autodetecting and chainloading Linux distributions from USB. It works even if no Bios USB support is available. It fits on a 1.44MB floppy. Its also possible to start plopKexec from CD or any Linux loader/boot manager.