On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Ernest <Ernie_L_Jackson@...> wrote:
>
> Hello members,
>
> I have a problem with my XOSL installation. At present it is only letting me
> see three logical partions. I have no problem seeing my three primary
> partitions (Win XP, Linux Swap and XOSL) and my extended.
> My installation lets me see three logical linux partitions, but will not let
> me see an additional logical linux partition and an NTFS data partition.
>
> XOSL also has an entry for booting from my floppy drive.
>
> How can I get XOSL to see my final linux partition. I don't care if it sees
> the NTFS data partition as I will not be booting from it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ernie
>

XOSL may not recognize every file system, which file system is used on
the Linux partition you do not see ?

We have received some reports of XOSL not being able to work properly
with big hard drives (>200GB?). This may be the same problem. How big
is your hard drive and how far on the hard drive are these partition ?

XOSL works only with msdos disklabel. It may not be able to see
correctly partitions that are using GPT, BSD disklabel, dynamic
partitions or LVM partitions.

XOSL can not boot Linux on its own, Lilo or Grub is needed to load the
kernel in memory. If I understand well, the partition where you
installed Lilo or Grub is one of the last two logical partition so you
are not able to boot your Linux OS through XOSL. Do DOS based tool see
these partitions (like fdisk on DOS) ?

As a workaround, you can probably install Grub on one of the Linux
partitions that XOSL sees and you will then be able to boot.

Antoine