success !
About midnight last night, I finished re-installing
Windows XP Pro, Fedora Linux, Partition Magic, Boot Magic
on disk 1 of my desktop computer.
I created all disk 1 partitions with Windows XP and Partition Magic.
I created all disk 2 partitions with Linux fdisk.
And it all works as advertised !
Boot Magic executes the Linux GRUB loader menu
which is located in the Linux boot partition.
Thanks for the feedback!
Just remember that if you do upgrade to VISTA or Windows 7 that PM8 is not compatible with their partitions and you'll have to bite the bullet!
Boot Magic refuses to install, because the installer has decided there is a hidden partition with a previous installation of Boot Magic.
This is false. What is true? The partition with a previous installation of Boot Magic was deleted; it no longer exists.