>This is all great stuff...
>
>Just one final note for Evan...
>
>If you get yourself into a bind with LILO and end up causing your machine not to boot properly, you can excorcise LILO from the master boot record very simply:
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>- boot up with a DOS system floopy that has fdisk on it.
>- once in, do 'fdisk /MBR'
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>This will return the master boot record to the standard default, and DOS/WIndows will once again load fine.
>
>Hopefully LILO won't misbehave for you, but anything is possible... *smile*
>
>Joe Kaufman

Hi Joe!
Welcome to the Linux forum on UT!
That little /MBR trick pulled our bacon out of the fire several times at work when Win98 was impolite to LILO and trashed it. Also, I've noticed /MBR coming in handy when experimenting with fdisk (Linux, not DOS's version) one inadvertantly crossfoots partition boundries and ignores the warning messages.
I won't tell you who did that .....