http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/ General discussion list for Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL). Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:45:25 GMT Antoine Wells Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5063 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5063 ... dos ... work? ... all ... Normally, with hardware RAID, you setup your disk array in the BIOS of the disk controller or booting to the Floppy or CD that Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:35:33 GMT marckevinjordan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5062 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5062 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 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:28:50 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5061 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5061 ... I was just looking around and I saw that http://multibooters.co.uk/ have a good information about this problem and explain how to copy Vista to a logical Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:59:15 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5060 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5060 ... Right. Although I don't think its saved in a database, more likely in the registry. diskmgmt.msc is very simple to use (just don't press delete partition, Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:10:07 GMT David Dvalis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5059 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5059 Hi, I'm also user of xosl and have three os's per hard disk. it seems to be possible to boot the microsoft os's from an logical partition but I could not got Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:09:40 GMT marckevinjordan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5058 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5058 Thanks for the quick reply. Some follow-ups... ... So, after each OS is installed, boot to each one using XOSL boot manager, run diskmgmt.msc & remove the Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:02:23 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5057 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5057 ... XP and Vista can see hidden partitions so don't bother trying to hide them in XOSL. Instead, use the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) to remove the drive Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:35:18 GMT marckevinjordan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5056 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5056 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 Fri, 30 May 2008 16:30:50 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5055 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5055 ... They can hide the partitions but not the drive, only the BIOS can do that. But even if you hide the drive in the BIOS, many OS can detect the drive anyway. Fri, 30 May 2008 16:19:07 GMT Norman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5054 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5054 Unfortunately there is very little relating SATA and WME. I found that out when I originally was trying to add the SATA drive and finally came to the Thu, 29 May 2008 15:33:01 GMT Robyn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5053 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5053 Hi Antoine, ... I would agree with this. 32Mb is my normal choice, but 30Mb will achieve the same result. XOSL requires less than 5Mb of hard drive space, so Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:10 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5052 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5052 ... What David recommends is a good idea. ... When installing to a dedicated partition, XOSL reformats the partition using another file system. So a 30MB Wed, 28 May 2008 15:22:55 GMT Antoine W. Campagna http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5051 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5051 ... If WME works when you only have your main HD and hangs when you add your SATA drive then it looks like it is a driver issue. This means that it does not Wed, 28 May 2008 15:08:28 GMT David Dvalis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5050 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5050 ... other ... 100Gb ... disk ... both ... installation. ... disk ... Hi, Try to boot your pc with Win XP CD and choose Repair and if it fixes your problem but Tue, 27 May 2008 15:33:51 GMT Norman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5049 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl/message/5049 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