[jrbuergel]

With a new Intel Core 2 Duo based desktop PC with Vista Home Premium installed first, and then installing XP Pro on a separate partition on the same hard drive, which then causes the Vista to not boot, and then if I install a major Linux on another partition same hard drive with the grub boot loader installed onto the master boot record, will the grub be able to boot both the XP and the Vista after I edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file if needed ?

[chrome57]

If you are good with Linux, I think Grub can be configured, Vista and Seven use BCDedit.exe, and XP and previous use Boot.ini. I use Vista boot pro http://www.vistabootpro.org/ for triple boot XP, Vista and Seven.

[saikee]

I put Vista in a primary partition to boot two win7 in logical partitions.

Xp installed in another disk in a logical partition so that it could booted by a Win2k in a primary partition. Originally I had the same Xp booted by a Dos partition. My Xp has been resized from 30Gb to 10Gb and moved through 4 hard disks so far. The movement is necessary because it has been activatred.

Grub boots all of them first, plus about another 35 Linux in the same box. For the 5 Windows I made up a sub Grub menu for them.

Grub can boot as many Dos and M$ Windows a user cares to install in a PC. Apart from being the most powerful and most flexible it is also the easiest, about 1/3 of the effort needed by the Vista's BCDedit I would say.

Here is an example of a quick triple boot with Xp, Vista and Linux. If the the two M$ systems are placed on different disks then use the "map" commands to re-arrange disk order.

[jrbuergel]

So there are several ways to multi-boot then, and thanks. Also I found this article which I can use and then intall a Liunx with grub too.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...ista-computer/