Installing Mandrake Linux with XP

[KimLeece]

Hi - I would like some advice!
I want to install Mandrake 8.0 on a laptop that has a factory install of XP on it. The disk was partitioned with two NTFS volumes (one is c: the other has no drive letter - I think it's for the laptop hibernate function) it has one more partition which has the NEC restore files - it's a FAT32 volume. They are all primary partitions. I have used Partition Magic to resize the c: drive - but it wouldn't let me move either of the other two partitions. Using the space after the c: drive I have made a linux swap and linux ext2 partition - these had to be logical partitions due to the number of primary's allowed. This has all successfully been made - and XP still runs fine.
I intend to install Mandrake to the Linux partition but am a little worried about the bootloader - I can't afford to wreck the XP install - it's in Japanese, and would cause a lot of problems. All the data has been backed up.
My main question is this - does the bootloader work properely with XP now? (Mandrake 8.0) I have read that there were originally some problems - but am hoping that they have now been fixed.
Any advice would be most welcome!
Thanks,

Kim Leece.

 

[KimLeece]

errata! I'm sorry - I meant Mandrake 9.0

Kim Leece

 

[smah]

Use lilo as the boot loader. I have heard of various problems with grub. Good luck.

 

[danielhozac]

I'm using GRUB and have not had any problems with it. (Currently multibooting Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Slackware and RedHat). //Daniel

 

[FeDja]

danielhozac (Programmer)
Feb 1, 2003

I'm using GRUB and have not had any problems with it. (Currently multibooting Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Slackware and RedHat). //Daniel


Could u please tell us how u made it work.. i got it to work with lilo but heard that grub is better. and that u dont have to reinstall it if u update kernel and so on and that u dont have the boot 1024 limit with grub. i have been trying get grub to work but cant really get it to work fine,, it crashes alot and a lot errors come up så i just removed it for now, but it would be a great help if u could help me out a bit