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There is no reason to chainload bootloaders. GRUB will cheerfully boot pretty much anything directly. The machine I'm on right now dual-boots XP and my own custom Linux, and adding another OS is as simple as installing it normally (on the same hard drive or another - doesn't matter, I setup a machine with 6 OS's across 3 drives a while back for testing) and adding an entry to GRUB's configuration file. It should be pointed out that you don't *have* to install a boot loader when you install Linux if you already have one due to an existing Linux installation. Most Linux installation schemes give you the option of not installing one - just configure the existing one to boot the new one. BTW, I've used GRUB to boot XP and XP's boot manager to boot Linux - it's a matter of preference, but IMHO GRUB is probably the best all around general purpose boot loader.

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