Hi knome: sorry for the delay. I wasn't home.
I can see your concern. This is a fresh install i did this morning after wiping my hd clean with 'shred', i left LILO in place, till i read your post. In the past, i've done this several times and no problem with Salix and Slackel. Salix grub is not pretty as Slackel's. But worked perfectly. I'm about to reboot now, i will let you know when i come back from the reboot.
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bobo[~]$ sudo slapt-get --remove lilo
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lilo
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
After unpacking 1.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
Removing package lilo-24.0-x86_64-1gv...
Done
bobo[~]$ spii grub
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
grub
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 39.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
1/1 Get http://salix.hostingxtreme.com/x86_64/14.1/ grub 2.00-x86_64-6cp [9.8MB]...Done
Preparing to install grub-2.00-x86_64-6cp
Installing package grub-2.00-x86_64-6cp...
| grub (the second GNU GRand Unified Bootloader)
|
| GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for
| modularity and portability.
| Features are: Scripting support, Graphical interface, Rescue mode,
| cross-platform and many more
| Briefly, boot loader is the first software program that runs when a
| computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring
| control to the operating system kernel software (such as the Hurd or
| the Linux). The kernel initializes the rest of the operating system.
| * gettextvar, eval, getdate commands added.
|
|
Done
bobo[~]$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.
bobo[~]$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background: /boot/grub/salix.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-huge-3.10.17
No volume groups found
Found Slackware Linux (Slackware 14.1) on /dev/sda2
done
bobo[~]$ sudo reboot
Hi again knome, just rebooted, no problem, perfect. This is no laptop as you can see from my signature. Lemme check my BIOS about this UEFI thing.
The first time i did it, i knew if it failed i could always reinstall Salix, but every mind is a different world.
If you are worried, DON'T DO IT and be happy with what you got.
PD: Just checked my BIOS, it doesn't make any mention of UEFI, it mentions "Legacy devices" it's an ASROCK MB.