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Kind of new to this and need some advice before I do something dumb! Have partitioned a 40GB hard drive with 4 partitions -- 1 NFTS, 2 Reiser, and 1 swap. Have WinXP installed on the NFTS and Xandros installed on one Reiser partition. I have the dual boot working when I turn on my computer to choose between WinXP and Xandros. My qustion is I want to experiment with other Linux OS's and would like to install different ones on the second Reiser partition. And I would like to have the option to choose any of the three OS's when booting. If I install say Suse10, do I also install the bootloader associated with it or do I leave the bootloader already there?? And with the bootloader already installed and working with WinXP and Xandros will it "see" the third OS I installed and add it to the list of choices?? THanks for any advice!!
Distribution: approximately NixOS (http://nixos.org)
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If you install SUSE you'll surely get SUSE listed in boot menu, and probably both existing systems. If not - read manual to find out how to correct it. If it won't help - ask detailed question about exact loader.
By the way, learn to install Xandros bootloader, so that if you make a mistake you can oot any linux cd, go to a console, mount partition, chroot to it and fix everything (was a discovery for me some years ago).
I'm assuming that you installed something like GRUB when you installed Xandros.
When installing SUSE, do not install a boot loader. From Xandros (or a live CD), go into the Xandros /boot/grub directory---you should find a file named "menu.lst" Edit this to add the SUSE-specific info.
Let us know for sure what boot-loader you have, and we can be more specific. (Also maybe post the contents of menu.lst---or the equivalent
Boot up Xandros, open a terminal, and cd to /boot. Somewhere there should be a configuration file for lilo--perhaps in a folder called lilo. If you can find it, post the contents.
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