platforms have been the reason for porting XOSL to the Open Watcom tool set. Examples of stability issues on specific PC hardware are: Launching the Ranish Partition Manager from within the XOSL boot manager (Ctrl-P) results in a non-responsive keyboard. Booting into the Smart Boot Manager (used to support booting from CD/DVD) results in a non-responsive keyboard. Booting into Linux using the XOSL boot manager is not successful because of a non-responsive keyboard after the XOSL boot manager hands over control to the Linux boot process. In XOSL-OW these stability issues have been solved by an improved A20 line switching algorithm and flushing the keyboard buffer before the XOSL boot manager hands over control to either the Ranish Partition manager, the Smart Boot Manager or the Operating System Bootloader. Compatible file-systems Currently xOSL is capable of booting operating systems from a variety of format types. These include, and may not be limited to: Windows FAT12 (File Allocation Table) FAT16 FAT32 NTFS (New Technology File System) Linux- ext2 ext3 ReiserFS External links XOSL Hq(Official site) XOSL Users Group at Yahoo XOSL Historical Archive from 2000 xOSL and Windows Vista XOSL Mirror at www.ranish.com xOSL2 Sourceforge Page XOSL-OW Home page Czech Translation Understanding MultiBooting by Dan Goodell Boot loaders