You may be referring to Smart Boot Manager...
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/index.php3?body=about.html
It worked quite well to boot from the CDROM on an old 486 of mine.  It can 
be installed in the MBR or a floppy, similar, with more options than the 
previously mentioned GAG.

At 09:10 AM 11/24/2003, you wrote:
>What windows will do when it installs is wipe out the MBR with its
>loader, then set its partition as the active one. If you're using the
>windows MBR anyway, this doesn't change anything. You can then just set
>your linux partiton as active to get grub back, which can be done with
>the windows FDISK.
>
>There's an open source MBR out there, Debian comes with it. It can bring
>up a menu to pick any partition to boot, rather than having to boot an
>OS to change the active partition, and can even boot a floppy. Dunno
>where you get it separate from debian.



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