The other day I had a good demonstraion about the usefulness of a boot stick
created with pkgtool.
I had propely banged-up my multi-boot MBR and could not boot at all.
I then booted with the latest Slackel live Fluxbox changed in the boot stick
the device to boot from to my main Salix directory where I have lilo.conf.
Booted flawlessly from the stick run lilo and my MBR was back to multiple
partition booting.