You're not an idiot. I am assuming that you are referring to when you type your user name and password in. This is actually an x-login to the system, not the boot manager. LILO runs first, passes permission to the default or specified kernel (Linux, windows, whatever), then you get to the graphical or cli login.
I have been using XOSL off and on for about a year now. It is nice if you dual/multi-boot with different hard drives and windows/linux oses. I can't load winnt on my second hard drive unless I turn my first one off via the bios (my first hdd has win98 on it:( ). Then everything loads, I turn the first hdd on, then run XOSL. It allows you to bypass the bios settings on boot up so that you can run the ntloader or lilo (if you installed the default boot loader on the second hard drive). This is something that not too many "free" os loaders can handle. Plus, XOSL is very pleasing to the eye.
The only draw back seems to be that you need a dos partition in order to load and run it. This feature needs to go. Once it does, it could give grub and lilo a run for their money.
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You're not an idiot. I am assuming that you are referring to when you type your user name and password in. This is actually an x-login to the system, not the boot manager. LILO runs first, passes permission to the default or specified kernel (Linux, windows, whatever), then you get to the graphical or cli login. I have been using XOSL off and on for about a year now. It is nice if you dual/multi-boot with different hard drives and windows/linux oses. I can't load winnt on my second hard drive unless I turn my first one off via the bios (my first hdd has win98 on it :( ). Then everything loads, I turn the first hdd on, then run XOSL. It allows you to bypass the bios settings on boot up so that you can run the ntloader or lilo (if you installed the default boot loader on the second hard drive). This is something that not too many "free" os loaders can handle. Plus, XOSL is very pleasing to the eye.
The only draw back seems to be that you need a dos partition in order to load and run it. This feature needs to go. Once it does, it could give grub and lilo a run for their money.