XOSL

Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) is the world's only full-featured free boot manager with a real, easy-to-use and full-blown graphical user interface. Click the screen shots link to see what XOSL is like, and decide for yourself!

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...

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