lilo and ntfs

[Lorenzo Prince]

lilo's code is actually written to the MBR of the hard drive, and will 
completely overwrite any other boot loader installed there.  Therefore, 
the NT loader would no longer exist on your hard drive and Lilo takes over 
completely.

Lorenzo

igueths at attbi.com staggered into view and mumbled:

> 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?

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