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I know its possible but I don't know how to do it.
My old PC has Widows 98 and XP and u just choose the one u want on startup.
Now I wanna do this with XP and Geexbox and (if I can get it) Mandreke 10.
How do I do this?

I am assuming you have already installed the two OS on seperate partitions. All thats left to do then is to open up your boot.ini in notepad, and you should see a string that points to your WINXP installation. Now all you have to do, is enter one for the Geexbox (or the linux) in the same syntax...

Where do u find boot.ini

Do a search for it... Think it is in one of your Windows folders, not sure...

Windows search should find it... Just set it to find hidden and system files too...

Sorry , my bad

its located in your c: {Or whatever drive is your master...}

If ur looking 4 it using windows xp, u can right click on my computer, go to the advanced tab and under the "Startup and recovery" heading click settings then click edit! It will open the boot.ini file 4 u!

Good luck!

or just click start ?run
and type boot.ini and it's gonna bring it up in notepad