I have a 110 GB hard drive with Windows XP already installed (NTFS file system) and want to install Red Hat Linux 9 which comes with GRUB. The problem is I'm not sure whether to install and use GRUB as my OS boot loader, or to install PowerQuest's BootMagic which I had with PartitionMagic 8.0? Does it really matter which I use? Any pros or cons to the situation?

Thanks.

Dont go with that of Partition Magic its risky i got my harddisk crashed using that.

        GRUB option is safe.u have to take care if u are having NTFS partition

            HTH


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Think you will find that XP is a special case.
Sorry, can't speak authoritatively about XP, since I don't have it.
In general the process is: 1) install Windows 2) install Linux.
What GRUB does is write over your Master Boot Record (MBR) and then allow you to chain boot to XP. (As expected Windows isn't as forgiving) But again, there may be a gotcha in chain booting to XP.
I saw on this site http://forums.devshed.com/t58000/s.html
"I got it working. It turns out that there was another boot option in GRUB that was called DOS. At first I discarded this option because I didn't want DOS I wanted WinXP but I decided to try it and low and behold it booted Windows. Thanks for all the suggestions I was able to use them and help someone else with a similar problem."