And for full disclosure - I guess I should mention my prefered scheme for partitioning - when installing :) This works for No-of-OSes <= 3. I've been using this scheme for a very long time. (and never had a need for more) MBR - Compact Boot Manager (from http://www.ranish.com/part) hda1 - Windows (primary partition) hda2 - Linux-1 (primary partition / or /boot) - with grub on /dev/hda2 hda3 - Linux-2 (primary partition / or /boot) - with grub on /dev/hda3 hda4 - extended partitions - which have the rest of the partitons (swap, /home, etc..) This way there is no requirement for any 'common' boot/config files - and each OS can be destroyed/replaced independent of each other. Satish
