The alternative for korean laptops and eeepc is pLop boot loader, which a german dude is developing, which is more of a power tool, but it has the added advantage that it can render selected partitions cleared instead of hidden, which means windows wont detect it. By the way, if you want to multi boot windows XP, eg xp english and xp arabic, you must hide the existing xp, then set the xp-about-to-be-installed-on partition to active, and this can be done in XOSL! In order to fix that, you have to replace your MBR with a standard one.
Thanks for the comment. I also hope someone will continue its development. Another thing, just incase. Thanks Nathan. That helped me a lot. Now I have a multiboot XP and seven installed on single hdd. Certainly xosl is the best boot manager I have tried so far of the all in terms of cosmetics and features. A developed version of xosl would be a more better option anyway.
Great post, thanks for the detailed description, and glad to hear others think XOSL is a decent loader that needs revisiting! Bezne to opravdu neni, ver mi - desitky pocitacu s XP mi stale bezi, stovky uz se vyradily pro zastaralost, ale takovyhle problem byl vzdycky spis vyjimecna zalezitost "necim" zpusobena.
At uz neopravneny zasah uzivatele nebo selhani HW - v zadnem pripade to ale neni normalni stav, ktery by bylo nutno osetrovat jakymikoli preventivnimi zasahy. Jinak tedy k veci - XOSL podporu W7 nema, podle meho nevidi jejich zavadec a neumi s nim korektne pracovat. Od te doby se ve windows zmenilo opravdu hodne Mimochodem - nemuze samotny XOSL byt prave tou pricinou problemu? Moc by me to neprekvapilo, spis bych na to byl schopny i nejaky obnos vsadit Tomas Kral tkingu.
Intel Microsoft Apple. Heslo Wi-Fi Tipy. Windows 11 Windows Insider. For running "Windows 9x B" hide first primary and also first logical partition. I have installed Windows NT or in a logical partition and want to boot it from there. What should I do before hiding primary boot partition C:? One way is copy boot files for Windows NT or Windows from its primary partition to the target logical partition and then hide the original primary partition.
Change your Boot item to boot the logical partition and test it. After success you can safely format your primary partition and use it for any other Operating System or purpose. Check date and time just to be sure but, if you're still not sure, just copy all system and hidden files from the root of your old boot partition to your new logical partition.
Use program BootPart for that. Read its documentation, but here are short instructions: Boot that partition the rest should have been hidden with XOSL with Windows 9x or DOS floppy and type: "bootpart winnt boot:c:". Be sure to check with "dir" that your current "C:" is the one just before that.
Now you won't even see Boot Manager flashing on the screen Please report any differences, problems, additions, confirmations or suggestions. What about cylinder limitation? Microsoft Operating Systems MS-DOS through Windows 98 or even Windows ME have a bug where, if the last logical partition in the extended partition is not a recognized file system type, and multiple visible FAT primary partitions exist, it will use the last logical partition as a FAT one in place of the next primary partition.
But it will think the size of the partition is that of the primary partition. Data coruption can occur! But how can you create 4 primary partitions with fdisk? Most versions of DOS fdisk can't create more then one visible primary partition and one extended partition. If all the primaries are hidden then fdisk will be able to create what it thinks is the only primary.
Of course, you must ensure that space is available for your proposed new partitions. Search documentation for detailed instructions.
When you want to create one more primary partition with Partition Magic , it says than Windows 9x won't work if more than one primary partition exists. If you'll hide all other primary partitions except the current one in XOSL you won't experience any trouble. Windows won't boot from extended partitions so I started to create primary partitions and both Partition Magic and Ranish Partition Manager would not let me create more than 4. What should I do? Each primary partition can contain an Operating System on its own or just data , but can also be set up as an extended partition.
An extended partition is a container for logical partitions, of which you can have any number. But some Operating Systems will only reference a limited number of partitions. Windows can boot from a logical partition this is not common knowledge but this type of installation is a little tricky for more information check this and also other documentation. It is also possible to have 2 or more Hard Drives, which would allow you to have 4 primary partitions per hard disk.
That way you are able to boot 8 or more of your Operating Systems from primary partitions and as many others as you have logical partitions available for them. Don't forget hiding. This is required should you want to install more than one Operating System.
Partitioning can be a destructive process for your data, and should be handled with care. Keeping to a regular Backup policy is highly recommended. Make a boot floppy at least it must also contain format.
Run fdisk and create the first primary partition. Be sure that you leave enough space for other Operating Systems and for data partitions. Make sure that you format the right partition or else you'll lose data! Then install XOSL in that partition. This way you'll be able to test it and get used to it. Later you should reinstall it to another partition for more information read on. Reboot and create Boot item for floppy. You have to hide the first partition at this point.
Now put the boot floppy in and boot your new Boot item. Run fdisk again and create the second primary partition. Leave the non-DOS partition alone, because this is your hidden partition. Again reboot and repeat format procedure. Remember to change the Boot item to also hide the new partition on reboot. After you have created any primary partitions you need as above , you should create one more primary partition: extended. That partition is a "container" for logical partitions.
You can create as many logical partitions as you like. Organize your data in logical partitions. My recommendation for XOSL is that it should be installed in a hidden logical partition, so create one more for that.
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