Grub

I prefer using grub to lilo, although learning to use grub is a bit more difficult in the beginning. However, once it's configured and running properly, you can forget about. It's maintenance free.

Dual-boot Mini How-to

I have both Linux and Windows XP installed on the computer. Here's how I did it.

1. Partitioned the hard drive. Here's the partition table.

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            14      1319  10490444+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3          1320      2625  10490445   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2626      4864  17984767+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          2626      2762   1100421   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2763      3036   2200873+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7          3037      4864  14683378+   b  Win95 FAT32

2. Installed Windows XP on my only NTFS partition /dev/hda2.

3. Installed Gentoo Linux on /dev/hda3 using their excellent step-by-step instructions.

4. Installed and configured grub using the Gentoo Configure a Bootloader How-to. Here's my grub.conf. Note that hd0 represents /dev/hda and (hd0,0) represents /dev/hda1.