On Sun, 4 May 2003 17:11:21 +0100, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
wrote:
> If I write a NetBSD disklabel to a disk with lilo installed, will that
> render it unbootable?

[I think I know the answer.  Let's see if someone corrects me.]

No.  The disklabel is written to the front of the NetBSD partition.  It is
NetBSD's description of the disk.  lilo lives outside that, in the first
sector of the disk.  Writing a disklabel won't touch the MBR unless you
use options e.g. -B that explicitly do so.  

--jkl