Boot Manager

[kcajuk69]

http://www.boot-us.com/

 

[Gert van der Kooij]

http://www.boot-us.com/

Hmm, I would rather call it crippleware.

Copied from their homepage:

Restrictions of the non-licensed version:

The non-licensed version has the following restrictions as compared
to the licensed version:
No password protection in boot manager
Restricted password protection for configuration program
No support for boot from second, third,... disk
No support for true partition hiding in boot manager

 

[russnov303]

Hmm, I would rather call it crippleware.

Copied from their homepage:

Restrictions of the non-licensed version:

The non-licensed version has the following restrictions as compared
to the licensed version:
No password protection in boot manager
Restricted password protection for configuration program
No support for boot from second, third,... disk
No support for true partition hiding in boot manager

I found a free boot manager

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. Comes with Complete Html Help!
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 is known to support..BeOS..MS-DOS..FreeDOS..Linux (with
Lilo)..Solaris..VxWorks 5.x..Windows 95/98/Me..Windows NT/2000...and
others...
http://www.xosl.org/
though i could not connect to the orginal website i placed it here
for downloading

http://www.freewareoffice.com/ click on the latest tab its listed
there

 

[bambam]

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I found a free boot manager

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.

Where did you find it?

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004SYSTEMUTILITIES.htm#A817

;o)

 

[russnov303]

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Where did you find it?

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004SYSTEMUTILITIES.htm#A817

;o)

I downloaded it and the info a while back and burned it to cd. I
downloaded it from the orginal site http://www.xosl.org/

 

[Kurt]

wrote in

I downloaded it and the info a while back and burned it to cd. I
downloaded it from the orginal site http://www.xosl.org/

You can also find XOSL at http://ranish.com

 

[dg1261]

Where did you find it?

XOSL is available from www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm or from the
downloads section of the XOSL ng at groups.yahoo.com/group/xosl.
Reportedly, the xosl.org domain name lapsed last year and somebody
jumped in and snatched it away.

In addition to what russnov said about it, I'll add that XOSL has a
couple features not found in the average boot manager. It can
selectively hide individual logical partitions, not just primary
partitions. That means that you can have different combinations of
hidden-vs-visible data partitions for different OS's. Also, it can
boot the boot sector on a *logical* partition as well as the usual
primary partitions. That means you're not just limited to booting
from the four primary partitions -- you can clone an OS many times and
put them in logical partitions, and be able to boot any one of them.