Hi,
I've got 2 distros installed on two separate partitions on one harddisk + I have a common partition for /home on another harddisk. Here is a list over partitions:

hde:
hde1 - MDK10.0 (/)
hde5 - swap (common for both distros)
hde6 - Slackware10.0 (/)
hde7 - currently empty

hdf:
hdf1 - /home (common for both distros)

Now, how do I configure LILO to boot Slack? Everything is ok with mdk (booting fine etc.), but I just can't get slack to boot. Can anyone please send some kind of general configuration for that?

(yeah, I know, kind of wrong to go from mdk to slack, but I just wanted to give it a try )

Did you add swap and /home partition to your /etc/fstab file at Slackware / partition? Or what does it mean "I just can't get slack to boot"? What happens when you try? Is there any errors? May be you should post your MDK's lilo.conf file thus we could find out whether there is a mistake and narrow down the possibilities.

Well, I have somehow fixed the problem with booting now, but I had to copy the contents of /boot directory from hde6 (slack'sroot dir) to mdk native /boot, so now slack's vmlinuz (and other files from slack's /boot) are placed in /boot/slack/. Is there any other way to do this?

this is what my /etc/lilo.conf looks like:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
default="Mandrake10.0"
keytable=/boot/no-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
vga=791
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Mandrake10.0"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/slack/vmlinuz
label="Slackware10.0"
root=/dev/hde6
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount splash=silent acpi=ht"
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe splash=silent acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
read-only

But now I get kernel panic when Slackware boots. It says something like couldn't "mount vfs" and before that I get errors about the system not finding /sbin/insmod.old... I'm really confused

NB! by the way, when I installed slack I was told that coreutils couldn't be installed (!). I had to extract the contents of the tarball manually from the dvd to the correct folders on hde6

>> Is there any other way to do this? <<

The other way would be to mount Slack's root partiion to a mount point in Mandrake, set up the correct details in Mandrake's lilo.conf (taking into account the mounted nature of Slack's root partition) then run /sbin/lilo from Mandrake - a quick search here should bring up threads showing that method.

thanx, i'll try