There are other commercial boot managers (such as PowerQuest BootMagic), but you could install GRUB on the first hard-disk. Enter linux, login as root, and type /sbin/grub I understand that your Win2k drive is the primary one (/dev/hda) and the Linux drive is the secondary one (/dev/hdb). Enter the following commands: root (hd1) or root (hd1,1) . setup (hd0) Unfortunately, you will still depend on the secondary drive to be present (for GRUB to load the config files). If, however, you need to boot without it, at startup, GRUB will enter the commandline mode if it doesn't find the config files. You could manually enter the following commands to boot Win2k: root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot Or, you could install LILO (it's also free). If you decide to do so, please e-mail me. Valentin Istrate