lilo and ntfs

[igueths at attbi.com]

Hi all. Thanks for the replies Lorenzo and Mat, I will finish the Debian 
install on my friend's box tomorrow in that case. Just a question though. As 
far as I know, according to a normal boot process the Bios first checks for 
the presence of any other boot media, and then executes the boot loader which 
reads the Mbr. If I were to overwrite the mbr, wouldn't the nt loader have a 
fit because its mbr is nowhere to be found? Or would the presence of the nt 
loader go away entirely? I am just asking because as far as I have known an 
MBR is supposed to be contained on Secrot 0 of the hard disk. Since an 
operating system is being installed to somewhere around cylinder 2131, I was 
just curious as to how Lilo would access the existing MBR to overwrite it?