Multi Boot question WindowsXP, Fedora and another

From: Bruce Barbour (bbarbour_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 09/24/05 

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:00:06 GMT

I have Norton Partition Magic 8 installed which contains Bootmagic, a
way of installing other os's together with WindowsXP. Since XP is NTFS,
I have to create a small Fat32 partition to follow PM8 instructions and
that's ok and I can install more than one linux os and boot it from the
Bootmagic installation.

What I want to know is whether I can use GRUB (or LILO) to dual-boot XP
and Fedora, and also to install and be able to boot one or two other
linux os's from the GRUB (or LILO) choices. I can do this with
Bootmagic but want to be able to do it otherwise. TNX.

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: GRUB, MBR and NTLDR confusion
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  • Re: [opensuse] Harddrive order - physical vs how openSUSE sees them
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  • Re: RAID & HDD failure recovery
    ... new drive arrives, I install & attempt to boot, like I had several times while waiting for new hdd when failed drive was powered down. ... Boot hangs, cant find valid partition. ... The other variable is I still run lilo on my server. ... There are lots of arguments as to why grub is superior to lilo for a development machine but these don't apply to a server environment. ...
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  • Re: It works using NTLDR. But now how to boot from CD?
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