SO I dual boot RH7.3 & XP using GRUB. One annoying thing though, the grub loader sits at that "loading stage2" for around 30 seconds...which seems like an eternity when you are waiting for a reboot ...

On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and kernel ...