XOSL, an alternative to Lilo and Grub 328
WhyPanic writes "XOSL, the Extended Operating System Loader, is a free (as in beer and as in GPL), full featured, graphical boot loader that can work in conjunction with Lilo or separately to boot all varieties of Windows, Linux, and many other OS's." Nifty looking.
LILO amd Grub (Score:2, Informative)
But you still need Lilo... (Score:3, Informative)
Thier website still says:
XOSL is known to support
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Linux (with Lilo)
Re:Wishlist... (Score:3, Informative)
Lets see what I can remember about this.
That's pretty much all I remember about it... I hope that gives you and idea of what Xosl is like.
Yes, it needs LILO (Score:3, Informative)
"Installing GNU/Linux
If you're installing Linux, install LILO in the Linux partition's boot sector (superblock). You can safely ignore the warning that says you won't be able to boot Linux. XOSL can do the job."
this mean the hassle of running lilo everytime you recompile the kernel still exists with XOSL.
I rather use grub. don't need to rerun it every new kernel and it allows me to edit entries in the menu during boot...
Not new at all. (Score:3, Informative)
Flamebait.... Windows can boot multiple OSes fine (Score:5, Informative)
If there's only a single OS listed in boot.ini, then no boot menu is given. (What would be the point?) The bootloader just boots it without prompting.
By default, Windows is the only one it lists. (No surprise there.) I copied my Linux bootsector to BOOTSECT.LNX, added another line to boot.ini, and then I had a choice at boot time: Windows 2000, or Linux. To do all this I followed the mini-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org; that HOWTO is now several years old, I believe. It was originally written for NT 4.something.
Your article is complete uninformed flamebait.
Re:Appears to need Lilo (Score:3, Informative)
I stumbled across it while trying to put NT (not my decision) onto a machine that had previously had Linux and LILO on it. For some reason, NT wouldn't install it's bootloader over LILO, and LILO wouldn't boot to NT, because I couldn't configure it because Linux was no longer on the machine. So I installed XOSL, and everything worked.