I am attempting to boot both Windows and Slackware 12.1 with GRUB. The Windows bootloader is still intact, and I skipped over the LiLo setup part of "setup." I have been booting Slackware with the DVD.

I perfer to completely vanilla-install new versions of Linux as opposed to upgrading. So I figured that I need to keep the /boot folders intact so that Windows does not get lost in space if something wierd happens. The separate partition came to mind.

I currently have a hard drive that looks as such:

sda1 = Windows }
sda2 = Windows backup thing } I ain't touching these (preinstalled)
sda3 = /boot
sda4 = extended
--sda5 = /
--sda6 = Linux swap


My problem is such that "grubconfig" does not seem to do the job. It creates the menu.lst file and all of its friends and drops them into a place called "/boot/boot/grub/" Yes, there are two "boot". This seems to stem from me designating sda3 as "boot" during setup.

I then designate sda3 as the place to to boot from (the other choices are the MBR and a floppy disk.) Yet, when I restart, Windows pops up without a hitch: no GRUB.

I whipped out the Ubuntu Live CD and fired up GParted. I flagged sda3 as "bootable," but this made no effect. Of course, when I checked again later, sda1 was somehow marked as "bootable" again.

Anyone else booting Slackware from a separate partition?

You need to install grub (stage1) to the MBR. The later code needs a partition to live in, but the initial code has to be in the MBR if you want it to be the loader.
As for the /boot/boot... thing, see the grub FAQ here

The link below explains the correct way to create a separate /boot partition. It is written for Ubuntu but most of it will apply to any distro and if you read it you will understand why you have "/boot/boot/grub/" and will be shown how to change that.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzo...boot_partition

Alright.

These are good links. I believe I will have to install to the MBR. I will be back after I try this later.

I had the exact same problem with my Slackware 12.0 install. I ran grubconfig and it made a /boot/boot/grub/ directory as well. It sounds like you have all the required files to use grub but it is not installed to the MBR. I ran an Ubuntu Live CD to correct the issue. Here's what I did.

1) Boot Ubuntu Live CD
2) Open up a terminal
3) Become root by typing the command "sudo -s"
4) Complete the following commands as root
root # mkdir /media/sda3
root # mount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3
root # cd /media/sda3/boot
root # mv grub /media/sda3/
root # cd
root # umount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3
root # grub
grub> root (hd0,2)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
root # exit
5) Reboot

You should now have grub installed to the MBR. Update the menu.lst as needed.

I just installed it to the MBR.

GRUB has become lovely as of late. It detected every partition I have on the hard drive. I edited out the data ones, and am left with a working dual-boot.

Thank You.