I know people do this, but I seem to have no luck with getting lilo to cooperate. I love to experiment with different distros. I am always constantly trying new ones out. When I try to add a new distro to a lilo or grub file I must do it wrong, because I always get an error saying error loading chainloader +1 or something like that. Can't I just add the lines pointing to the partition I have the new install on, here is an example of my lilo.conf file:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=DOS

other=/dev/hda6
optional
label=hda6

I had gentoo on /dev/hda6 and it doesn't boot

Also is there a way to always keep home on a seperate partition so its always there. Can I just add a line in fstab on every distro to access all my files in the home directory. Thanks for any help.

P.S. I am currently booting with grub, but I'm not too good with it either.

First things first,
you must not label any Linux distro as other. It si the same with LILO or GRUB.

You will again have to give all the details such as

image=/boot/vmlinuzXXXXXX
label=l
initrd=/boot/initrd-XXXXX.img
read-only
append=

You can use one swap for multiple linux distros but I don't think u can have a common home.

look at my lilo.conf

I have windoze, RH8, and ELX linux:

prompt
timeout=70
default=RH8
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=RH8
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-12elx
label=ELX
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-12elx.img
root=/dev/hda8
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=Win98

Hope this helps