XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

[<abhay@cox.net>]

Hi:

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive.  I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it.  I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition.  I made a dos
boot CD using instructions at bblcd and used loadlin to boot into linux.
Then I used the following command to create a linux.bin file

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

I copied linux.bin to /dev/hdb4 which is my vfat partition.  I rebooted the
machine and logged in as root into XP.  I copied the file linux.bin to C:
and added the following entry to boot.ini

C:\linux.bin="Debian Linux"

I rebooted again and selected "Debian Linux" from the menu.  I got a bunch
of 0s and 7s filling up my whole screen but it never booted into linux.

I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard
disk.  Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of
the screen and the machine simply hung after that. Ctrl-Alt-Delete got me
out of that and I used the XP recovery console to fix my MBR and restored
the machine so I could boot XP.  I can boot into linux using my dos cd and
loadlin but would like to boot into it without having to do this.

Oh and I did upgrade my bios but the problem persists.

Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much
appreciated.

Regards

Abhay