Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

[jani.pohjanraito@kuva.fi]

I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help:

I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives.

And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the kernel
etcetc from floppy).

So yes these are separate HD's.

Now from previous experience I *know* that win2k is quite 'sensitive' when it
comes to booting. I tried boot manager called GAG earlier, but managed on
multiple attempts to lose the Master Boot Record to Win2k and had to reinstall
from backup images... So no luck.

AFAIK lilo will also overwrite win2k boot manager in a way that will make
poor little win sulk and not ever be found again. So answer to any of the
three below will solve my problems, II. or III. being more robust I suppose.

I. 
How do I make an boot disk for the hdb/debian so that it only boots from 
the floppy, but loads kernel etc from HD?

II. 
Is there such a thing as relatively foolproof and simple way (aside from
BIOS ;) ) to install an boot manager that does not touch/corrupt/overwrite the
Win2k? Any links and experiences welcome.

III. 
Now as I write this I started to wonder if it would be possible to
add the lead to linux boot record into windows BOOT.INI ? For win2k boot.ini
says:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Anyone ever try it 'the windows way'?

Well any help much appreciated,

Jani


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