Features
Choose-OS is intended to be highly configurable and that is one
reason why it will be highly modular. 0.8x series, yet, only implement
operating system loaders as modules. Some day chos (version 0.9 or whatever the version
will be...) will also implement
user interfaces as well as operating system loaders as modules on both,
the loader and installer side. It and can therefore be easily extended
to support many different kinds of user interfaces (normal, vga, liloish, etc.)
and operating systems.
It can currently load the linux kernel (vmlinuz) and bootsectors of
other operating systems. Linux loader module features include bzImage,
initrd and, of course, command line. Bootsector loader features
MBR rewrite (useful for hiding dos from win95/98) and more.
Other useful features include what I call "single-shot autoboot",
a feature that allows a program to tell chos what operating system
to boot on the next boot.
Rebooter is one such program.
If you don't always have the hard disk, on which chos data files are
located on, plugged in you may find the "emergency boot sector"
feature handy.
When the feature is enabled and chos can't load its data, it can load
a specified "emergency" boot sector.
For those of you who, for any reason, don't want to edit
configuration files, there is a nice graphical configuration
utility,Visual CHOS, by Andreas Blome.