I've been trying to work up a tri-boot (XP, fedora, slackware/otherdistro) system on my laptop, however I am having trouble getting GRUB or fedora to recognize the other distro's partitions..
I first tried this: 30G XP partition, with 10G fedora partition, and then installed slackware, using cfdisk to partition another 10G after the XP and fedora partitions.. While installing slackware I tried to overwrite GRUB with LILO in the MBR (which I'm a little more comfortable and receptive to,) but after install GRUB still loaded up and only showed XP and Fedora.. So I tried to edit the GRub .conf file to add the slack partition.. Hopwever GRUB was not able to spot the partition at all, and neither was fedora able to track down the newly installed slack partition when I tried to find the path to the slack kernel..
Second time, I've installed fedora, and partitioned the drive before installing slack into a partition (which may be a problem too, I had to giev the partition the name /slack to make sure nothing went into it that I don't want in the way,) and although I haven't tried putting slack into the partition yet, I am not feeling that this is going to be successful either, as I feel that slack may not like being forced into a partition under the heading /slack..
So, how can I remedy this problem without actually nesting bootloaders inside each other (which I've seen done, but that's lame and annoying IMHO.) What steps should I take to correctly install both distros and make sure that they will both be able to 1: recognize each other, and 2: allow the booatloader to recognize them both/find their respective kernels..?
I'm pretty n00b at linux, so this is kind of advanced for me still.. I have to use fedora core 2 for a class, and I like slack a lot, but the instructor doesn't have the time or incilination to assist students in stuff like editing bootloader config files, so I'm grasping at straws and spending lots of hours installing distros in different ways, when I think I'm probably overlooking something pretty simple...
I can post my hard drive scheme, but would prefer someone else to just recommend how I should partition it, I have nothing valuable on the drive (although I'd rather not remove and reinstall XP, too much software in that partition,) so I'm not afraid to mess with it, but I'm not getting much closer to the solution.. the GRUB howtos I've read aren't answering the problem of the distros/loader not seeing each distro's partitions..
PS: I still prefer LILO, so if the solution uses LILO instead of GRUB, I'd be just as/even more happy!
Tri-Boot Help/Recommendation With GRUB/LILO?
