On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Al Gerardi wrote:
| I currently have windows XP home edition installed on my 19 gig hard
| drive IDE type.  I want to partition a second drive  6 gig to use
| for linux redhat 7.2.  I read that I shouldn't do a multi boot
| option with NTFS windows XP.  I am going to use partition magic 7.0
| version to setup the second drive partition. Will Grub loader allow
| me to boot either linux or Windows XP home edition.  I don't want to
| screw up my current install of windows XP.

I don't think any bootloader works with NTFS (even NTFS support in
Linux is experimental, and largely read-only).  You can, though, use a
separate floppy disk to boot linux and leave the windows MBR alone.

-D


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