Interesting Norman.
I suggest the bios is crucial (in principle, they're improving
all the time). What is yours?
Junja


norman@... wrote:
> Hi Thomas
>
> Success with an external drive might depend on BIOS and connectivity
> used. I have used it successfully with a 1TB esata connected external
> drive. As you have had success with a smaller USB drive it might be
> worth reinstalling XOSL and trying again.
>
> Regards
> Norman Back
>
> thomas.wawersig wrote:
>> Hi Norman,
>>
>> thanks for your incouraging comment. Is your 1TB an external drive?
>> If so I will give it a new try.....
>>
>> regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>> --- In xosl@yahoogroups.com, "norman@..." <norman@...> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In my experience XOSL alread supports large drives. I'm currently using
>>> it successfully on a 1TB (1000GB) drive with multi boot XP, W2K & linux.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Norman Back
>>>
>>> thomas.wawersig wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> this is a serious warning to NEVER try WinXP boot manager.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunetaley I had to look for an alernative to my beloved XOSL,
>>>> since I bought a 500GB hard disk, which somehow crashed my XOSL.
>>>> So in a fit of naive stupidity (after looking at various other boot
>>>> loader, that did not really come close to XOSL), I thought I give the
>>>> XP-thing a try.
>>>> What a total desaster!
>>>> Ok, I could boot into two different systems, but strange enough when
>>>> booting into the second XP, residing on a logical partition, I had the
>>>> system drive mapped as H: and still had good old C: (i.e. the first
>>>> system). Consequences were bitter: quite a lot of nice little apps did
>>>> not work properly anymore......
>>>> So well, of course I went back to scratch (I thought...). So I
>>>> pondered booting with a floppy (still have one:-)) and erasing the MBR
>>>> would be an easy way to get things back to normal.. What a childish
>>>> belief in the good of this world. I really forgot that these Redmond
>>>> guys do not tolerate any other gods beside them. Though I checked my
>>>> Bios a again and again: no way to boot from floppy or CD. No, Sir,
>>>> nothing. I had to use my XP installation CD instead to get rid of that
>>>> shit.
>>>>
>>>> So I wondered: will there ever, ever be XOSL supporting large external
>>>> drives?
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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