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5067
Hello All, Glad I still use XOSL, it is really a great multiboot system! Sorry for long post, really tried to resume it An unknown HardDisk partition has been...
eps_s
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Sep 1, 2008
10:37 am
5068
... Are you sure that the partition is on the HD ? Maybe it is some other hardware driver that causes this, like a flash disk, SD card reader or somehting like...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Sep 2, 2008
1:02 pm
5069
... installed ... drive. ... the ... but ... During Installation as the backup files cannot be written to the cd, you get the above error. \ Copy the xo0sl...
phaneendra_rao
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Sep 2, 2008
2:07 pm
5070
This happened to me - it was the Extended partition. I hid it and luckily everything worked - including linux inside it. (Been offline due to phone problems)....
junja
john_negus
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Sep 10, 2008
6:45 pm
5071
Hi, I would like to know if anyone has tried to set up a multiboot using XOSL on a PC with Intel matrix Raid implemented on it (RAID0 + RAID1). Thanks for your...
pilon1960
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Sep 16, 2008
4:05 pm
5072
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the xosl group. File : /Xosl Startup.zip ...
xosl@yahoogroups.com
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Sep 22, 2008
7:43 pm
5073
hi antoine. thanks for posting the startup files. i hope that people get some enjoyment out of them. definitely like being able to customize the appearance of...
sacred.heart10
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Sep 23, 2008
4:58 pm
5074
In the past I have always loaded XOSL onto the first primary which it has shared with Windows 98 or Me, this has always worked very well. I have just bought a...
martin_emailme
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Oct 13, 2008
6:36 pm
5075
... Hi Martin, XOSL doesn't care where its own dedicated (unformatted) logical partition is located - as long as it's a complete cylinder (7.8MiB). Try ...
Mike O'Connor
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Oct 14, 2008
8:15 am
5076
According to your partitions, when you boot to DOS you should see the FAT16 partition as C:\, unless the partition is hidden, try to run partition magic or...
Diego Luna
diegoluna_fiuba
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Oct 14, 2008
1:41 pm
5077
I have a variation on my original situation. I am uninstalling XOSL without having a good copy of the MBR (cannot find the original saved floppy). The Win2K...
dknapp11
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Oct 16, 2008
2:18 pm
5078
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:38 AM, dknapp11 ... If XOSL can boot the partition, it means the boot sector and boot files are OK. A DOS-compatible MBR boot code...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Oct 16, 2008
2:39 pm
5079
... files are OK. ... problem. ... The XP was on another computer. I connected the problem disk to the XP box via a USB external tray just to see what was...
dknapp11
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Oct 16, 2008
4:16 pm
5080
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:50 AM, dknapp11 ... If I am not mistaken, the XOSL uninstaller only restores the original MBR boot code. So a "fdisk /mbr" would...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Oct 16, 2008
4:25 pm
5081
xosl always displays 2 first partitions. You have to scroll down (use +/- if I remember correctly) ... From: martin_emailme <martin_emailme@...> Subject:...
Lasi Tuhery
tuhery
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Oct 19, 2008
3:36 pm
5082
Everything is OK now. Although I am sure fdisk /mbr would have worked, I went the more complicated route by building myself an Ultimate BootCD for Windows, ...
dknapp11
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Oct 20, 2008
7:19 pm
5083
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:01 PM, dknapp11 ... Ultimate BootCD is quite good. Although recently I have been using SystemRescueCd, which I also like. So what...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Oct 20, 2008
7:36 pm
5084
hello all. so i do all this crazy stuff and was wondering if it was possible to move an installation of xosl - without re-installing? what i want to know is...
defonso
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Nov 4, 2008
3:07 am
5085
... Well, this is a good question. I do not know the exact answer. Maybe there is some documentation about this somewhere in XOSL's installer source code or...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Nov 4, 2008
3:56 am
5086
... Hi Guys, Don't any of you know how to use a direct disk editor - to actually look at the MBR? XOSL knows where it is installed to (when in its own ...
Mike O'Connor
mikeoconwarp
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Nov 4, 2008
4:15 am
5087
Group, I stumbled upon xOSL last year and was able to use it to build 8 XP installations on logical partitions. Each instance saw only itself on the C: drive,...
Stephen Kent
stephen_r_kent
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Nov 19, 2008
6:35 pm
5088
Thank you both for your replies. That sounds like an answer Mike - thank you. I'll run a few tests to see if I can "re-create" the install and move xosl around...
defonso
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Nov 19, 2008
6:35 pm
5089
... Hi John, Your problem was the following (without knowing how to interpret all of ... Regards, Mike...
Mike O'Connor
mikeoconwarp
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Nov 19, 2008
10:35 pm
5090
Hi there, I just got myself a new 500GB external USB hard drive which I connected to my front USB. Now XOSL is not booting anymore. Instead I see the XOSL...
thomas.wawersig
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Jan 6, 2009
10:42 pm
5091
Hello Thomas, ... I do not know what has caused this problem, but I would take a step backwards and try to boot without the external drive connected. If the...
Robyn
robyn_peel
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Jan 7, 2009
6:34 pm
5092
Hello Robyn, thanks for your suggestion. Yes, this is what I tried already, and when I remove the external disk, everything is o.k. again. Since the external...
thomas.wawersig
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Jan 8, 2009
3:14 pm
5093
2009/1/6 thomas.wawersig <thomas.wawersig@...> ... I am sure my problem was different from yours but here is what I had happen. I have been using XOSL for...
Bing Whiteway
leowhiteway
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Jan 8, 2009
5:19 pm
5094
... happen. ... to boot. ... computer ... Now I have ... was ok for ... low for a ... I found ... Yes, you are right, I believe there is a limitation in size....
thomas.wawersig
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Jan 11, 2009
1:29 am
5095
Can anyone help with dell GX288 win xp Cannot boot up & get message "SATA primary hard drive 0 disk failure"...
braff29
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Jan 22, 2009
3:34 pm
5096
... That message is not displayed by XOSL, it has been written before SATA was in use. It is probably displayed by your BIOS. I recall seeing a message like...
Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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Jan 22, 2009
4:51 pm
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