The boot loader can be located in the boot sector or in the MBR; LILO actually gets installed in the MBR thus overwriting the NTLoader. This is why I recommend installing Windows XP first. Matt > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Matt B. White Tel: 508.969.2836
