Previously Tom Del Rosso wrote:
Trying to make 3 or 4 bootable partitions on one disk is getting a little
tight. Where do we stand with the limit on the first cylinder of bootable
partitons? Have the BIOS standards people dealt with this yet, or do boot
managers work around the problem ok?

Booting with a reasonably new boot manager should not be a problem.
I use Grub, which boots both Linux and Windows XP without problems.

Arno