Hmmm.  I've done several dual boot installs with only a few problems a couple years ago and none recently.  (At least as far as the "dual Boot" goes.)

Everything I've read on the subject is consistent that
         Windows bootloader wants Windows installed first on the primary drive. 

If you do that, then install just about any of the current distros on the other drive/partition(s)
tell grub (my preference) to install on the primary mbr. 
The grub configuration tool, during install, lets you pick which os is the default if no menu select is done.

I've had it work successfully with Suse, Mandrake, Ubuntu and Fedora Core 4.  (The last two on laptops!)

If you later remove linux, resetting the mbr back to its Windows state is just fdisk mbr from the command line on a Windows boot.

Dennis



On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:15 -0700, Charles Stevenson wrote:
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You'll probably want to jumper the windows drive as slave and
the Linux drive as master.  This way you don't have to munge the
Windows MBR stuff.  Or in whichever way make Linux the primary
boot device and then configure a bootloader as Sebastian said.

peace,
core

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