Is this normal

[MandK_10]

I have an old P90 that was running dos6.22/win3.11 dual boot with RH 6.2. I had lilo set up so that if I type dos I get dos or if I leave it alone or type linux, linux comes up. (Obvious, I know.) Lilo is in the MBR.

Anyway, here is the part that I am confused about. I put the HD into my main box to use PM to change the fat partion into NTFS. Then I put it back into the older box and installed WinNT 4.0. When I rebooted up came lilo and when I typed in dos the winNT loader came up.

From what I have read, this should not have happened. Anyone know why this might be. Mind you, I am not complaining, everything works fine. Just curious.

Mike

[Derango]

All LILO does with a windows partition is to point your computer to boot using that partition. Basicly, windows installs its own boot loader on the partition it is installed on (not in the MBR). Lilo just points the computer to that boot loader and says "here! load this!"

As long as the partition you put Windows 9x on was the same as the one you put NT on, LILO dosen't care whats there....just as long as there is somthing to boot.

[MandK_10]

OK. I just thought that I read something to the effect that if you have lilo in the MBR and if you install WinNT it would overwrite the MBR and make linux inaccessable.

Thank you