Linux, WinME, WinXP

[TheBigBasicQ]

Hi,
I have currently WinME and RedHat Linux 9 installed on my machine. WinME is on my 20GB HDD while RH9 is on my 6.4GB HDD. My 20GB HDD has two partitions. Now if I install WinXP on my second partition then it will overwrite the MBR and it will create dual boot with WinME(i hope). But I dont want to destroy my Linux installation. How do I reinstall LILO after this installation? I had tried this before but the problem i faced was that XP creates a dual boot with ME and writes that info onto the MBR. When LILO is installed after Linux Installation it will will give me two options to boot:
1. Windows
2. Linux

When windows is selected, it will bring up XPs bootloader interface asking me whether to boot WinME or XP.

I dont want this to happen. I want LILO to give me 3 options while booting:
1. WinXP
2. WinME
3. Linux

Any help will be appreciated.

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[manarth]

you'll need to create a linux boot floppy.

> install XP - it will overwrite your MBR.
> boot using your boot floppy.
> edit your /etc/lilo.conf file (add in the path to your XP install)
> run /sbin/lilo to reinstall lilo into the MBR.

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[Chacalinc]

as I know, lilo should discover all your partitions and if it has OS installed, it should add an option on the boot menu...

 

[manarth]

some linux GUIs (Suse, Mandrake, RedHat...) can auto-setup Lilo, but the actual lilo program can't do this for you.

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[jstreich]

GRUB is lot more powerful than lilo, but the idea is still the same... You create a linux boot disk, install XP, use the linux disk to get back to linux and install the boot loader to the MBR (after telling the boot loader about XP). With Grub, it should detect the new XP partition and if it doesn't you can use the GRUB comandline to tell it about XP.