First, thanks for the answer and the many suggestions - to the name: I usually use "JustMe" but it is used by someone else, so I used a name from WoW, a game...
... [...] ... Yea... NT5.x (2k/xp) can give the boot drive any letter you want... for some time (until my last reinstall) my windows 2000 system booted from D...
I installed xosl (on a dos partition) on a new system and on bootup it runs to the point where it displays the Extended Operating System Loader 1.1.5 line then...
I had a similar experience on my new P4 machine w/ a large bootable SATA RAID1 drive and, after many permutations, abandoned XOSL all together. I actually...
Please could anyone help? Background:- I've been using an 80gB hard drive, which I've divided into 8 partitions, using Ranish. XOSL has it's own dedicated...
If the logical partition you're booting 98 from is beyond the 1024 cylinder limit you'll need to edit the boot code to allow Int13 extensions during boot time....
Hi Verc - thanks for your help. When that partition became corrupted, I did a quick format & then copied my backup as files & folders - NOT as an image....
Doc Chiron here: comments interspersed. ... Subject: [xosl] Re: Can't boot ONE of my partitions! Hi Verc - thanks for your help. When that partition became...
... How did you do that - copying them by hand or using the 'sys' program to do it? It may be that the partition boot sector hasn't been initialised .. junja...
old stuff: Agreed! I should have mentioned that the failed partition was FAT32 (as all of them) & was previously Win98se. Also, that after the re-format, I did...
Hi Doc - very many thanks for the trouble you've gone to & the lengthy advice so well explained. Hope that didn't result in your Boss giving you hell !! I...
... Doc, have you got thigs a bit mixed up here? Being 98, his image would contain IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM rather than NTLDR et al. And the boot...
I prefer a dark blue colour for your text and lab coats should be white for most people, ;-) . On 23/03/06 at 17:42, Doc Chiron wrote about the subject of ...
Colin: (Just noticed that relies are written on your stationery.) Stop using that damn MSDOS-6.22. It cannot handle FAT32. It also cannot use INT-13 extensions...
Doc Chiron here: continuation of incomplete previous message. You obviously didn't get the gist of what I was recommending. Without using MS-DOS6.22 at ALL,...
Doc Chiron here: Dermot, you are so right! I mistakenly got it in my head that his OS was an NT based version - arrggghhh! Wiser still was the idea to use...
Hi Doc - sorry about the delay in replying, but it's taken me all weekend to read & digest what you've said!! Firstly, thanks for all your trouble. I may have...
hi i know it is possible to have 4 installs of xp on one hdd, cos i did it a few months ago, and which O/S loaded depended on which partition was set active,...
Well you need to set each partition active before you install an OS to it. Of course XP's installer allows you to indstall to another drive other than c: BUT...
... From: Jamie Dale To: xosl@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [xosl] Digest Number 1286 Well you need to set each partition...
You also need to hide each partition, install XP on the remaining visible one, which will be c: for all of them, and then re-install XOSL to add it to the boot...
Yeah sorry I should of mentioned that the other partitions must be hidden while you make your target partition active. Also, No version of Windows will boot...
On 12/04/06 at 00:36, Doc Chiron wrote about the subject of "Digest Number 1288" > Netiquette request: > Please trim the excess garbage (advertising and...
no, i know all about partitons and partitioning, let me clarify: how do i make my pc boot from the active partition (obviously using my bootable cd of...
I've used xosl for some time now but during a recent installation looked with more interest at RPM and SBM, neither of which to date I have installed. Now I...
Yes, SBM (Smart Boot Manager) does basically the same thing as XOSL but XOSL does much that SBM does not do and there is at least one thing that SBM does do...
IIRC the reason for including SBM (for those that may not know, Smart Boot Manager - http://btmgr.webframe.org/) was that this piece of software included the...
I installed ubuntu (Debian Linux) recently with GRUB to boot, I then installed xosl and just booted Linux by booting to the original MRB. Unfortunately I was...
... Right, thanks for the info, I only loaded it as a form of practice as I didn't want to mess up my daughter's laptop, not a facility that I feel a need to...
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