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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Why ?</A></H2>
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<P>I wanted to be able to boot all operating systems without having to go
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through multiple menus. I know I can install NT on top of win9x on top
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of DOS. I would have to go through the NT menu then the win9x menu in
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order to boot DOS. I wanted to be able to boot all these operating
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systems at once.
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<P>This turned out to be quite a challenge. The problem with Microsoft
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operating system is that they all want to boot from the primary
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partition. This is where GRUB comes in. It can hide primary
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partitions. You can use up to 3 partitions to install Microsoft
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operating systems. GRUB will hide the other 2 partitions so that the
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operating systems will not see it. This means you will need another
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partition to share data between DOS, Win9x and Windows 2000. The 4th
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partition is used for the extended partition.
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<P>I also wanted a menu system and GRUB provides a nice one.
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<P>Another nice feature of GRUB is that it supports reiserfs so I don't
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need to keep my /boot file in a separate ext2 partition.
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