kalyway not mounting/formatting as hsf+

how do i get leapord osx not to over write mbr?????

i currently got
160gb
20gb xp pro
5gb open suse
20gb reserved for osx
rest data partition
using grub as boot loader

how do i install kalyway without it over writing my grub boot loader ?!?!?!
i am confused , unless after installing osx i got to boot into win98 start up disk and use fdisk to set xp as my acgtive parition again ? then use chain file loader to add option for osx . but then how would i get linux back ?!?!

i attempted to install leapord but then it lets me format partion as hsf xtnd but then it says done but then it shows it as a dos formated partition and unable to mount it - so i didnt know so i proceeded as normal but when asked to select partition to install osx to it wont show the third partition other then the xp partition so i cannot instal xp

is it because i have too mayn partitions or its not using guid to format the partition as per google reaearch ? if so , whats guid partition

 

to get linux back you just need to reinstall grub afterwards, you can probably use the grub-install or update grub commands for this

if the partitions are all logical you shouldn't have any problems

 

thx for reply . my layout is this

160gb =
primary 20gb xp pro
logical 5gb
logical 4 gb linux
logical 1gb linux swap
blank 20gb reserved for osx
primary ( it would only let me make primary partition) rest is a ntfs data partition

using grub as boot loader