multi booting of windowsxp and linux operating systems

windowsxp&linux

to avoid the problem of multibooting of windowsxp and linux on same hard drive,

don't install grub on MBR but install grub at the first sector of /boot partition.


hope this will help :
my case

first installed windows xp on first primary ntfs partition hda1
then i have d: and e: as logical fat32 drives hda5 & hda6 respectively

then i have /boot partition on hda7, / partition on hda8 and swap as hda9

after installing linux, booted from floppy and in root terminal i typed

mkdir /mnt/d:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/d:
dd if = /dev/hda7 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/d:/linux.bin

then i restarted in windows
copied linux.bin image from d: to c:
add the following line to the c:\boot.ini file using notepad.
c:\linux.bin="red hat linux 9"
and save it.

now restart the system
u will see two option at boot
1. windows xp
2. red hat linux 9

now reinstalling of one operating system cannot interfere with the boot of the other operating system.

hope it helped

I always install grub on MBR, it works ok.

Install windowsxp first, and then linux, it is easier and very well

You also can use the third software for booting the OSs.

gr8

i have also installed windows xp first and then linux

if u install grub on MBR and in future after reinstalling windows xp, 95% chances u will face problems in rebooting linux, cos grub may not load.

atleast my experience says this.

Hi
backing up bootrecords of both windows & LINUX is necessary. Because both boot records have equal chances to loose.

yeah, it's correct, backing up is needed