I’m about to install Slackware on a separate disk in my system. The installation asks to install LILO as the boot manager, and I will install it on a root partition (hd2,0), rather than the MBR. There is no way, that I can see, to not install LILO and still have a working OS.
My question is will it interfere in any way with my present GRUB installation, on a root partition (hd0,1)? I will modify my GRUB to boot Slackware after the install, but I don’t want LILO to somehow screw up my OpenSuse installation.
Can I move GRUB to the MBR instead of running it from the root partition, without messing things up? It looks like Yast can do if for me, but I wanted to check with the experts first.
I f you install LILO (or any other boot manager) in the bootsector of the root partition of another OS, there is absolutely no problem with Grub installed anywhere else. You don’t have to ‘move’ GRUB to MBR, simply install it to MBR as well. You can have Grub stage1 installed in several locations.
Slackware install well. Once I remembered to activate the boot partition with fdisk, it booted right up from my GRUB menu.
I’ve come full circle. My first encounter with Linux, and first installation, was Slackware back in 1994/5. Most likely version 1, though I don’t remember exactly. Before that, I was a diehard VMS admin.