I just tried out xosl, and another boot manger, over the last few days, and I have had to dump them both. I have a multi boot system here, with both Win2k and...
Hello Robert, Fdisk /mbr is used to clear the Master Boot Record, but it does nothing about the selection of the partition which will be used to boot on. I...
I forget to tell you : You can have also to hide some partitions, so when you boot under your OS, the C: drive letter will be free. Gdisk 1 /hide /p:4 ... will...
Hi Matthew, thanks, but the OS, Win2k, I wanted to boot and load was active as I checked it with a dos disk from PMagic8, and it was then and there that I...
You say "I checked it with a dos disk from PMagic8, and it was then and there that I noticed only the FAT32 partitions were lettered". Note that you said "......
Hi there. Like the other guy said, it probably tries to boot from the wrong partition because the good one (the first) is hidden or inactive. I would use a...
... Hi Bob, yes I did say that. Ooops, I wasn't think straight then if DOS does not recognise NTFS partitions. I did not realise that it was DOS and not...
Hi folks - sorry if this seems a damned fool question, but I'd love to know the answer! I've been using XOSL for some time to boot into one of 2 Primary...
... Hi Colin, Even though XOSL has "hidden" the primaries - if the OS on the slave drive is any of Windows NT/W2K or XP, then you just assign a driveletter to...
... slave ... I ... Hi Mike - many thanks for your reply. Sorry, but I should have said that all my drives/partitions are Win98SE - does this make all the ...
I use XOSL to boot between Win98SE on my master HD0, and XP on my slave HD1. All was working well until I had to reformat Win98SE on the master HD0. I've ...
... Hi Colin, As I spend the bulk of my time in various versions of OS/2 or its offspring eComStation and occasionally RedHat Linux, I'm no Window$ expert - I...
... Hi Colin, Boot from the WinXP installation CD, select Repair the installation when prompted - read and follow the screen instructions! -- Regards, Mike ...
I would add a point. What I would do would be to unplug the first HD so there is only the NTFS slave. Then use the repair from the XP cd. This will put the...
... Hi Antoine, Colin, I had assumed that XP on the slave drive had been installed into a logical partition with boot.ini, ntldr etc on the primary C:...
... So what drive letters were 2K and XP before? What is the configuration of your partitions (pri vs logical, and order)? Are 2K and XP cloned from...
... a ... as I would do here in OS/2! ... said ... the ... right ... primary ... If you ... cylinder ... drive ... after ... to ... would ... using ... get ......
... HD so ... This ... slave ... once ... master and ... need ... them ... slave HD1. ... master HD0. I've re-installed Win98SE but now I can't boot to the XP ...
... Hi Dan, Win2k was installed first on the first partition on the first HD, and obviously took C: as its drive letter. Then some time later I installed...
Hi all, I had a similar problem of not being able to boot XP from a slave drive. All I did was to hide all non XP partitions during boot process; so...
... Okay, as I suspected, you originally installed XP using the Microsoft boot manager. That's a major issue. The MS boot manager is incompatible with other...
... just a quick reply here as I'm going out. Ok, Linux boots through a dos bootmanager called Powerboot from http://www.bluskyinnovations.com When I install...
... Hi Dan, I took a lok at the liks you supplied and, yes it makes things clearer. I have managed to get my Win2k system back up and running fine, but not...
have you tried to use partition magic 8 (ms-dos)?, it let you hide any partition Colin Culpitt-Smith <colin@...> wrote: Hi folks - sorry if this seems a...
... to know ... must hide ... made them ... but of ... the Slave? Possibly a wee bit off topic here but many Linux distros now boot entirely from a CD. I've...
... slave HD1. All was working well until I had to reformat Win98SE on the master HD0. I've re-installed Win98SE but now I can't boot to the XP slave! I now...
Hi, I've been playing with XOSL for a little while, trying to customize it as much as possible. I figured out how to edit the wallpaper (the XOSLWALL.XBF is a...
Hi XOSL users, Please kindly advice in the steps to remove the XOSL from the system. Please reply if someone knows the removal methods ASAP. THank you....
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