i have been trying to install linux v9 on my system which has win xp on it. I have partitioned the drive and formatted and then done a fresh install of xp. Then I installed linux on the free space (13gb). I installed the bootloader on the mbr first of all. Both seemed to work at first, I was switching between both systems ok (restarting). When I closed my system down for the evening and rebooted the next day I could not get into either system. I reformatted and partitioned (started from scratch). I installed the bootloader on the linux partition. Once again everything seemed ok and I could switch between both systems, restarting my system several times. But again when I switched my systems on the next day I got a blue screen of death from xp (stop error: 0x0000007b) and could not mount files in linux. I am now reformatting my systems again. Can anyone help me solve this problem, or suggest a way to get the two systems to co-exist?


Thanks from a stressed out student

one option is to not install the linux bootloader and boot it from floppy
thus leaving the xp bootloader intact

can you give a few details about hardware
and which linux v9 (redhat9 or mandrake 9 or slackware 9??)

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