Hello people. I have a triple boot in my machine. Windows 10, Linux Mint 19(Cinnamon) and Slackware 14.2 LVWM(delicious distro).

Windows are booting and running ok, Slackware are booting and running all things, but Linux Mint... when i boot into Linux Mint the keyboard and mouse don't work and appear a message about Video Acceleration(i search around the web but i don't find anything who solve this issue).

Before Slackware installation, Mint boot with GRUB. Now, all three OS boot with Lilo. I think i need just a proper configuration in lilo.conf for Linux Mint recognize the things(see the grub information of Mint maybe? but i can't access because the keyboard and mouse don't work on Mint).

My lilo.conf:

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/sda

#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.

# Boot BMP Image.
# Bitmap in BMP format: 640x480x8
bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
# Menu colors (foreground, background, shadow, highlighted
# foreground, highlighted background, highlighted shadow):
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
# Location of the option table: location x, location y, number of
# columns, lines per column (max 15), "spill" (this is how many
# entries must be in the first column before the next begins to
# be used. We don't specify it here, as there's just one column.
bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
# Timer location x, timer location y, foreground color,
# background color, shadow color.
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255

# Standard menu.
# Or, you can comment out the bitmap menu above and
# use a boot message with the standard menu:
#message = /boot/boot_message.txt

# Wait until the timeout to boot (if commented out, boot the
# first entry immediately):
prompt
# Timeout before the first entry boots.
# This is given in tenths of a second, so 600 for every minute:
timeout = 1200
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# Normal VGA console
#vga = normal
# Ask for video mode at boot (time out to normal in 30s)
#vga = ask
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
#vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
#vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
#vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
#vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
#vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
#vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
#vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
#vga=769
# End LILO global section
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/sda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda6
label = Slackware
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda5
label = Mint
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

I hope the community can help me with this issue, thank you! LLSW(Long Live to Slackware! I really found my distro of heart but need Linux Mint need to run too)

Slackware has a grub package, too. I haven't use LILO in a long time.

Or, if Mint still has grub, you could try
from a mint terminal with root permissions, since that seems to be your main boot location as per
Once you have done that grub install, do a to generate a grub configuration for visual inspection in the 'less' viewer.
If it looks okay, then you can save that configuration file with , I don't know the path in mint, for my Slackware installation its "/boot/grub/grub.cfg".

If you have the recent version of Slackware then you'll have grub2, too, and you can simply do from a terminal with root access, too.

I think install grub by slackware is the best choice(keyboard and mouse don't work in Mint remember? lol), my lilo is so beatiful with the logo i make and needing to type the system name but ok... i need the three system running and i think GRUB2 it's the jump of the cat! Thank you, i'll post if it's solved and all systems runs ok LLSW

You can always edit configuration files from another Linux system. Just boot Slackware and mount the Mint root partition on /mnt. Then edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.

But I think it's more likely that the keyboard and mouse problem is an X thing. If you booted to level 3 (text only) you might be able to fix it from inside Mint.

You forgot to post whatever that message was so members here are left to guess? Post the error message. I'm not sure what information you have that would make you think it was Lilo and the install of Slackware that caused the problem? Did your mouse and keyboard work previously on Mint? You don't say one way or the other.

I haven't used lilo in a long while, but I think you are trying to run Mint with Slackware kernel. I would install Mint's grub to it's boot partition and chainload it from lilo using the "other=" option. That way you will make sure you are running both systems with the right kernels and append options.

Thank you all for help, but Cinnamon don't responds decently with Slackware kernel. The solution is, install Linux Mint on the Linux Mint partition(without formatting for don't have data loss, and backup the files in post-installation). When i install Linux Mint again(same version and kernel) i install the GRUB and this has been replaced LILO, so... all the three systems are functional but the loader now is GRUB. Solved! Every system with your own kernel version