if the bootloader won't boot (as far as I know lilo doesn't work very well with efi...), how can I boot into salix so that I can install grub?

hello everybody,
I was wondering to install salix into my macbook and dual boot. I was wondering whether grub is the default bootloader, and if not, is there any option during installation so that I can install it? I know that grub works pretty good with efi, but I have no idea of how other ...