Jesusfrk611
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So I wanted to try out a couple different linux distros all at once and install them all onto my partitioned hard drive. Windows XP is on another drive. I can install one and it will work fine with dual booting XP and that distro. Once I install the other it doesn't recognize the previously installed distro in the bootloader, so I can't boot to it... The distros I have installed so far are Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 8.10. I tried wiping out the partitioned hard drive and starting over, but Ubuntu installed the GRUB bootloader on my Windows hard drive, so if Ubuntu is not installed, it's not going to load anything... How do I get this to work with all 3 first, and then go on to maybe 2 more Linux distros and Windows 7 beta 1? Also, I'd like Xp to be the main boot OS. So like if I turn on my computer and don't select any OS to startup, it will start automatically with XP. Does XP have to be installed last to do this? I might be having to reinstall XP anyway to get rid of the GRUB bootloader... Thanks for any help. I'm not exactly new to Linux, just never installed more than 1 distro with Windows at a time.