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Hmmm...first of all, I'd see if you can set your BIOS to boot offboard IDE controllers by default. That way, the Promise RAID <i>should</i> boot first, even if you add a drive to the onboard IDE controller.
Afterwards, as you install Linux, I would suggest that you tell it to create a bootdisk and <i><b>not</b></i> put LILO on your MBR! WinNT works fine with LILO on the MBR, but come to think of it, I haven't tried it with Win2K.
If you feel like just booting off a floppy, you can do that with your bootdisk. If you feel like booting Linux through the Win2K boot loader, then I'd suggest you make your Linux root partition (the "/" partition) bootable, and have the install script put LILO on your Linux root partition rather than the MBR. Make sure you still create a bootdisk, as you're liable to need it later. Then I'd suggest that you head over to <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html" target="_new">http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html</A> and read up a bit.
If, in the midst of hacking around with the system, you accidentally blow out the Win2K boot record, there are a couple of things you can do. To clean out your master boot record, you can boot off a DOS/Win9x bootdisk and use "fdisk /mbr". To repair the bootsector on C:\, you can try starting the Win2K installation and choosing "Repair an existing installation" when it gives you the option. At some point it should allow you the option of repairing the boot loader. What you do from there is out of my realm; I've never been so careless/unlucky as to lose my Win2K boot record. 
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