Look & Feel

• User-friendly Graphical User Interface
• Full windowing system with mouse and keyboard support
• Resolutions up to 1600x1200
• Configurable mouse speed
• A set of color schemes
• Several color adjustment options
• Password protected boot configuration and settings
• Restart/Reboot/Shutdown
  
...and more...

Booting Features

• Up to 24 boot items
• Microsoft file system partition hiding support
• Storing additional keys before booting
• Activate partitions (one per system or one per HD)
• Automatic booting (with timeout)
• Auto boot last operating system
• Password protection per boot item
• Boot master boot record on any drive
• Boot DOS/Windows 9x on any drive
• Hotkey per boot item
• Support for hard disks larger than 8Gb
• [XOSL 1.1.1] Coexist with virtually any other boot manager (boot original master boot record)
  
• [XOSL 1.1.2] Run Ranish Partition Manager 2.38 beta 1.9 from XOSL, without first booting an OS
• [XOSL 1.1.2] Master boot record virus protection


• [XOSL 1.1.3] Swap drives
  
• [XOSL 1.1.5] IDE CD-ROM booting by including Smart Boot Manager
  
• ...and more...

XOSL is known to support

• BeOS
• MS-DOS
• FreeDOS
• Linux (with Lilo)
• Solaris
• VxWorks 5.x
• Windows 95/98/Me
• Windows NT/2000
  
...and others...

System requirements

Minimal system requirements:

80386 or better with 4Mb of RAM (6Mb for 1280x1024/1600x1200)

VESA VBE 1.2 compliant display controller

300kb of free disk space

Recommended:

Pentium 100 or better

VESA VBE 2.0 compliant display controller

PS/2 or serial mouse

Extended Operating System Loader
Copyright © 1999/2000, Geurt Vos

Mar 22, 2001
New section at xosl.org: FAQs & HOWTOs

Jan 30, 2001
The XOSL project now available at xosl.sourceforge.net

Dec 23, 2000
XOSL 1.1.5 released. Minor enhancements, and includes (indirect) IDE CD-ROM booting support
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Jul 3, 2000
XOSL Font viewer & creator released. Convert your favorite true type font to use with XOSL
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