I have XP on the primary disk, and have tried to put Drake on the other disk but the bootloaders don't work! I have put them on /dev/hda and one time just got LI on the screen and it just sat there. Another time it printed 99999... across the screen endlessly. I put them on /dev/hdb and left the MBR on /dev/hda alone, then set it up to boot hdb before hda, and it skipped right over hdb, went and loaded up XP from the MBR on hda. Everything looks OK when I install, it sees both XP and Linux and they are where they are supposed to be. I have had Linux on both of the drives before, I recently put a mew motherboard/cpu in and took these drives from other computers and started over. Anyway, any ideas on what is going on?

XP don't like LILO. It's much better idea to use XP bootloader and have LILO on Linux root partition (/). Follow steps from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html to do it.

XP never sees Lilo!! The only thing that XP knows is that something executes its kernel. It doesn't care what process does that or how it does that.

If there are ever any problems, it's because the BIOS, the bootstrap loader, and Lilo don't agree on where things are.

It's not that ntldr is a bad program, it isn't, it's just that Lilo and grub are much better at dual booting.

Well, I got it working. I installed Lilo text version on MBR and it works fine. I have a Radeon 7500 that maybe Lilo/Grub didn't agree with?