Ron Stodden wrote: > I use xosl all the time on all the machines I maintain and highly > recommend it, although further development on it has stopped. > > To use it with lilo, you must set the initial boot line in > /etc/lilo.conf to the install partition, that's all! > > lilo still shows its menu of what to run, but not always with 9.0 > > If you do a Windows reinstall you must set up xosl again, but that's easy.
Also: 1. It gets horribly confused if given more than two physical disks. 2. It includes Smart Boot Manager, which does not impress me. 3. It contains the Ranish partition manager, which is essential to diagnose and fix partition tables when Partition Magic just gives up. It has saved my life countless times. Just ^P when the xosl screen appears. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] New Web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
