Thanks, thats a lot simpler than other guides on making a boot floppy. I'm assuming for now I don't have to give any arguments to mkboot in order to make the floppy. Edit: mkboot installs lilo on the floppy, when I boot with lilo on the floppy I get an error. Is there any way to make mkboot pretend lilo (or grub) isn't there?

According to lilo.conf, lilo is installed in my linux partition and not the hard drive itself, so it shouldn't be in the MBR, correct?

Lilo is "helping" boot my machine. When I boot it shows the default boot (black screen with dell logo and progress bar) then Lilo tells me its booting WinNT (thats what I set as default). So I'm not completely clear on what's going on at this point, although everything seems to be working fine.