You can use XP's bootloader to load linux, I've heard it puported.. But I've never been successful at it. (the one time I've tried it.. :-P) It takes a lot of trickery with imaging the /boot partition and referencing that image in boot.ini... I find it much easier to use GRUB as the bootloader.
Blech. This involves writing the kernel and initrd image to someplace on your windows drive. Upgrading your kernel then becomes a more arduous process. Grub with chainloader +1 is much better.
If you change which drive number it is, you will also have to modify boot.ini to match. Changing the drive from master to slave will cause this to change. Unfortunately there's no really good way to change this from a linux box.
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