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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...
11 Jan 27, 2009
6:26 pm

Robyn
robyn_peel
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Can anyone help with dell GX288 win xp Cannot boot up & get message "SATA primary hard drive 0 disk failure"...
2 Jan 22, 2009
4:51 pm

Antoine W. Campagna
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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...
5 Jan 11, 2009
1:29 am

thomas.wawersig
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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...
5 Nov 19, 2008
10:35 pm

Mike O'Connor
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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,...
1 Nov 19, 2008
6:35 pm

Stephen Kent
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Hi, I tried uninstalling XOSL from my Dell desktop and ran into a couple of typical noobie problems: 1. Probably uninstalled it incorrectly, as the result was...
8 Oct 20, 2008
7:36 pm

Antoine W. Campagna
antoinewc
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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...
4 Oct 19, 2008
3:36 pm

Lasi Tuhery
tuhery
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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...
1 Sep 23, 2008
4:58 pm

sacred.heart10
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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 : /alphabet.txt ...
10 Sep 22, 2008
7:43 pm

xosl@yahoogroups.com
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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...
1 Sep 16, 2008
4:05 pm

pilon1960
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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...
3 Sep 10, 2008
6:45 pm

junja
john_negus
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Dear Sir, I have been using XOSL for about 2 years. It is really a good product. I just wonder that whether or not the XOSL can be installed from CD? It is...
15 Sep 2, 2008
2:07 pm

phaneendra_rao
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All the DOS tools (part, partinfo, driveinfo, etc.) running from a dos boot disk & gparted (linux boot disk) both see my raid array as two separate disks. I'm...
2 Jun 23, 2008
2:45 am

Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
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Howdy, I just discoverd XOSL and think it's great! I'm going thru the xosl docs/forum and learning how to use it and I have some questions. Basically, I'm...
6 Jun 18, 2008
8:28 pm

Antoine W. Campagna
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Newbie. It is likely most of you know the issue of internal SATA and WME. I learned the hard way that WME does not support SATA drives. I recently added XP in...
4 May 30, 2008
4:30 pm

Antoine W. Campagna
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Hi I've used XOSL a lot over the years, and love it. But have now had two failed install experiences; one I now understand, but the other I'm stuck on, and...
6 May 29, 2008
3:33 pm

Robyn
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Is this even a possible combination? I am fervently awaiting the day that Apple wakes up and makes OSX available to more than it's closed platform, and want...
6 Mar 6, 2008
5:56 pm

sacredheart10
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Hi, I just got a Thinkpad A20m. It had a bare min. copy of XP on it. I want to use this as a strictly Win 98 system. I have 2 other computers..my big PC XP...
5 Feb 20, 2008
2:07 pm

junja
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Hi - I am a new person to this list, although I have been using XOSL for a number of years now. I have to roll out a bunch of laptops in the near future. I...
2 Feb 1, 2008
6:21 pm

Antoine Wells Campagna
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About a month ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook which comes with MS Vista pre-installed. I'm not happy with Vista, but as consumers we simply don't...
1 Jan 19, 2008
6:14 pm

marlo_nl
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Hi, all, Sorry for my poor English, I'm a Chinese student from Shanghai, China. Nice to see you. Now I'm begining learn linux and choose XOSL for my boot...
2 Dec 14, 2007
7:32 am

Antoine Wells Campagna
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Just wondering ..... has anyone tried a multiboot along with Vista RC? I understand that the boot strap is different in Vista now. Just curious....
7 Nov 20, 2007
8:00 pm

Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
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Is it possible to get a Notebook to boot from a PC-Card CD-Rom using Xosl (and SBM)? My Laptop doesn't have a built in CD-Rom and the Bios doesn't support CD...
10 Nov 17, 2007
2:36 pm

junja
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Well, I have finally lowered my defences and got on the wagon as too the use of Linux. In the last weeks, I have fooled around a bit with the new Ubuntu 7.10,...
3 Nov 15, 2007
7:31 pm

m_ostergaard2000
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Hello, I have been looking all over the net to see if anyone has done this, and i cannot believe i am the first one. Apparently, i used UBCD (ultimate boot cd)...
2 Nov 13, 2007
9:31 pm

Antoine Wells Campagna
antoinewc
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XOSL always booting from 1st partition (=XP) from 1st HD. And only after that, booting the desired partition (e.g. XP on 2nd partition). How to fix this?...
30 Oct 2, 2007
9:14 pm

Mike O'Connor
mikeoconwarp
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Dear sirs, I have a very peculiar scenario, I believe. My computer is a Pentium 4, Prescott (best known as Preshot, because of the little heating problem, just...
3 Sep 19, 2007
4:33 pm

Luiz Camillo
lcpenna
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I've got 3 partitions on a sony portable - xp, 32-bit dos, 2k - booting managed by xosl. In order to enlarge the xp partition, I used bootit to slide the two...
3 Aug 15, 2007
6:55 pm

junja
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Hello!! Well, I'm trying to install Windows Chicago Beta 58s on my computer as an alternate OS (Dont ask why, hehe). So the first step is to partition...
4 Aug 6, 2007
12:17 pm

Robyn
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Hello all, We've just encountered a annoying trouble with ATI video cards. The color are messed up look black and red, very dark, barely visible. It looks like...
7 Aug 6, 2007
12:10 pm

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