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Because it will overwrite any other operating system's bootup. In some Linux distributions you have to explicitly tell LILO (or grub) about your windows partition for it to be able to boot into, for others it will automatically check to see if you have windows and add that as an option on the bootup menu.
When you install lilo, it will put a copy of the overwritten sector in " /boot/boot.nnnn.
( look in your /boot-dir, i have a file /boot/boot.0300 wich is 512 bytes long )
you can restore it by using the " -u " option or copy it with "dd"
( see " man lilo " ).
Worked perfectly. It totally wiped the MBR. I had installed RH and was switching back to Slack, but kept getting GRUB stopping the boot. Apparently RH wrote stuff to the MBR and even deleting all partitions with cfdisk wasn't getting rid of the data. Entering the dd command wiped all the partitions from the disk. Going back into cfdisk and there was just one undefined partition.
Guess it could be a bad joke if you had something to loose
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