Dual bootting windows xp and linux

[lordhelmet79]

I want to dual boot windows xp and linux, but every time I do a standard dual boot for linx/win 9x, linux takes over and the boot loader does not recognize xp. or its hdd.
I installed linux on a seperate hdd. is that the problem?
Or is it a new thing cause xp is so relatively new?
thanks

[Timothy L. Miller]

What drives arrangement? Dual-booting works better if Linux is on the slave drive rather than the master, since Windows is VERY particular about where it's installed. Also, what boot loader are you using? I dual-booted for a while, and found that LILO would crash XP everytime, but when I used GRUB, it would dual-boot just fine.

[jetblackz]

Back up your files & favorites on Windows
Defrag & scandisk thorough
partition
Install Linux
Install lilo on 1st sector of Linux partition
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
cp boot.lnx /mnt/floppy
Boot XP
copy boot.lnx c:\
edit boot.ini
After multi(0)..., add
C:\boot.lnx="linux"
Reboot

If it doesn't work, it's most likely you copied & pasted the lines. Try to figure out what needs to be changed.