Isn’t XOSL gnu? WTF – why ain’t it standard? How this displaced LILO as the running standard is beyond me, I mean LILO was a manual configure situation too but at least it usually worked. Often times writing a boot loader from scratch seems a better solution. To make it remotely useful in modern booting schemes you have experiment in manual editing. Grub is in fact one of the nastiest pieces of GNU software in widespread use.
Like it’s PC counterpart, it can only boot the most simple setups, enjoys hanging up on “stage 2” and often has issues with booting from USB, SATA, and, Firewire. > If grub ran on Macs, it would be a lot better situation for everyone. Although, they would likely use it to create an XP drivers CD. Most user familiar with Dual Booting scenarios do NOT EVEN REQUIRE Boot Camp to install XP once the firmware update is in place. Boot Camp made a few things easier, but the “magic” behind Macs running XP was the FIRMWARE upgrades that load legacy BIOS support.
It is a partition “wizard” that also creates a XP drivers CD. All it is is a boot menu that will not ask you what OS you want to load by default or give you the menu upon starting up
