Installing winXP on other partition wipes my MBR....i want my lilo back!!
 

Subject pretty much says it all....

I need to reinstall my windows XP on my hda1, my linux is on my hda2. I know that if i re-install it, it'll wipe lilo off the MBR and the computer will always boot straight into windows. How can i prevent this from happening?

-- alternatively how can i boot into my linux partition again after installing winXP? (if i can do that i can just run lilo again from command line as root which will write to the MBR).

this may help you

The easiest way is to install LILO after XP, then boot with a livecd (can be Slack's cd 2) mount you harddisk partition, chroot to it, and install lilo by issuing: lilo