Rick T said in :
I just remembered trying to dual-boot Linux and W95 (and maybe ME at
some point) and having to either do Linux second, or save/restore the
MBR, 'cuz Windows overwrote LILO (which AFAIK is in the MBR not the
partition portion).

My brain cells that were retaining memories of Windows 95 have died off
or so few remain that there remain no coherent experience to recall what
it did on an install. Of course, I have been known to be wrong. The KB
articles at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=126671 and
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=69013 make it appear the Windows setup
does overwrite the bootstrap code in the MBR. Microsoft probably won't
trust anyone but Microsoft for the bootstrap program. But is also looks
like LILO is a boot manager that doesn't necessarily have to usurp the
MBR in order to work and could leave the standard bootstrap program in
place and have it load the boot program in the boot sector for the
partition in which Linux was installed to run LILO. I'm not familiar
with setup of Linux.

Yet there are other articles to backup my statement that the MBR
bootstrap doesn't get overwritten if one already exists. For example,
see http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3..._in_detail.htm
(under the link describing the Windows 2000/XP MBR). So it may be that
95-based versions of Windows are rude in overwriting the MBR bootstrap
program but NT-based versions of Windows are not. However, this article
talks about the Disk Management Console in Windows XP not overwriting an
existing bootstrap program but really doesn't mention what happens on
installing Windows XP. So I'm still confused on this issue.

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