> From: Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion PC running Windows ME.  I've had a
lot of 
> software corruption (long story) and am going to wipe the hard drive
and 
> re-install everything from scratch.
> 
> I have the CDs that came with the system to re-install ME and all the 
> drivers and bundled software.  But since I'm going to do this, I'd
really 
> like to try something I've been considering for quite a while.
> 
> I'd like to partition the hard drive and install Linux on one of the 
> partitions.  Ideally, I'd like to have the computer ask me which OS I
want 
> to use each time I power on the PC.
> 
> Anybody have any advice or suggestions about how to do that?
> 
> I'm pretty tech-savvy (I troubleshoot networked PC's for a living), but
I've 
> never worked with multiple operating system on the same machine before.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Windows NT/2000 has a nice text bootloader that can be induced to load
linux etc.  OS/2 Warp had a nice window boot loader.

Dump ME and get NT or 2000.
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