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Re: Can i use xosl to boot a disk not supported in a bios???

Bill McMurray — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:58:39 GMT

... That's correct. The more recent BIOS limit is commonly known as the 137 GB limit (by the more generous way manufacturers calculate GB) which requires a

Re: Can i use xosl to boot a disk not supported in a bios???

DentArthurDent — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:10:34 GMT

I might add a couple of notes and observations to this discussion from my own experience with XOSL on an older system with a newer hard drive. I believe the

Re: Can i use xosl to boot a disk not supported in a bios???

Bill McMurray — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:27:41 GMT

I assume you installed a PCI card to attach the SATA drive to. I did the same thing. Check if your BIOS offers a boot to SCSI, my 2001 Award BIOS has that

Re: Can i use xosl to boot a disk not supported in a bios???

Robyn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:24:17 GMT

Hello Dan, ... Firstly double check the BIOS settings. There may well be an option for "other devices" but this is not always the case. I would recommend that

Can i use xosl to boot a disk not supported in a bios???

ocalld — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:28:48 GMT

Hi I've installed a SATA hard disk into an old motherboard. The motherboard doesn't support SATA so doesn't offer the disk to boot. I also have a small slow

xosl in virtualbox

Karthick — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:12:41 GMT

did anyone install xosl in virtualbox to configure multiboot (windows xp & vista/7). The boot window is not stable and skips automatically to boot into OS.

Re: Installation stuck at "reading disk structure" on SATA (raid 5)

Sezor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:14:55 GMT

I've got a machine which xosl wouldn't run on - it hung at the signon message. It's not recent - an MSI K8MM3-V Socket 754 or MS-7181-050 I ended buying

Re: Installation stuck at "reading disk structure" on SATA (raid 5)

m_ostergaard2000 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:29:03 GMT

... Update.... I was able to install the basic boot manager in Ranish Partman. However, it was to basic. Then I installed SBM (smart boot manager) which I use

Installation stuck at "reading disk structure" on SATA (raid 5)

m_ostergaard2000 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:06:46 GMT

Hi Installation failed on SATA Raid 5 on a new mobo (msi790fx-gd70/amd@SB750). Installation gets stuck at "reading disk structure". When setting SATA mode in

Re: GUIDE: How to create a multi boot Vista-XP-Linux system using XO

Sezor — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:28:57 GMT

Thanks sol

Re: GUIDE: How to create a multi boot Vista-XP-Linux system using XO

Bing Whiteway — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:28:37 GMT

That is a quite good HOW-TO and I will pass it on to others. Thanks. 2009/7/11 sol_403 ... -- A computer without Microsoft is like a

Re: GUIDE: How to create a multi boot Vista-XP-Linux system using XO

Robyn — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:28:27 GMT

Hello Sol, Thank you for posting this. I am sure that others will appreciate it. I did write a simple guide for myself some time back for various Windows XP

GUIDE: How to create a multi boot Vista-XP-Linux system using XOSL

sol_403 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:01:15 GMT

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Re: XOSL with Vista - the "Disk Signature" problem

Sezor — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:50:33 GMT

Interesting. I'm looking forward to the install guide sezor

Re: XOSL with Vista - the "Disk Signature" problem

Sezor — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:41:59 GMT

That sounds to me as if it will work (though I have no experience of Vista). Keep us informed if it works. Sezor