Hi, Slackers:
I am considering a partial overhaul/juggling of the systems on my old-ish (Dell Inspiron 4100, ca. 2001) multi-OS laptop. I've sorta tired of Debian lately & would like to try building LFS in the partition Debian currently occupies.
Thing is, I have grub installed on the Debian partition, so the minute I reformat it the bootloader will be history.
Currently I am considering saving a copy of the menu.lst for the current grub installation, installing grub onto my Slackware partition & using the old menu.lst as a template for the new grub.
Guess I just want to make sure I'm not asking for trouble.
Every time I have done something like this I have had to scramble for a rescue CD ... which is not the end of the world, I know, but I'd rather proceed in a prepared manner.
The only reason I can recall for switching from LILO to grub is that I have had some esoteric-ish OSs on this box (I still have Plan 9 in my 4th primary partition) & I somehow got the idea that LILO had trouble booting these & grub did not.
Currently I have
Partition 1 (primary): WinXP
Partition 2 (extended): Debian, Slackware, swap
Partition 3 (primary): OpenBSD
Partition 4 (primary): Plan 9
When I get a new laptop (soon ....
) I may blow away the XP install and find something freakish to put in its place. Maybe Minix or the Hurd or FreeDOS or ... I don't know.
