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Somewhere I saw a Tutorial or How2 or Documentation on using GRUB2 in place of LILO as default bootloader -- now I cannot locate it.

Also, I want to implement GRUB Legacy as bootloader and use UUID. Q: is the blkid CLI utility available with Salix?

BTW, I lost root PW and have to go back an use LiveCD to change before doing this -- thanks are due to SalixOS Forum on this aside -- as a result, I cannot log into gslapt at the moment. Hence, the question about blkid before I begin.

So, I will need to be pointed in the direction to the How2 in line 1 and hear any answers on the directly-related remainder of this thread, please. . . if you would.

SalmonEater wrote:Q: is the blkid CLI utility available with Salix?

Yes

SalmonEater wrote:Somewhere I saw a Tutorial or How2 or Documentation on using GRUB2 in place of LILO as default bootloader -- now I cannot locate it.

Hm, I don't think I have seen such a tutorial written specifically for Salix anywhere. Most documentation floating on the net is valid though anyway. You need to be careful as especially Ubuntu tends to implement some super-special super-superior features. But without specifically checking Arch documentation is good and probably mostly fits. Also any Slackware specific howto (written for the Slackbuild from slackbuilds.org) should be working well.

But unless you have a very special setup or very specific needs, I recommend you just grab the grub2 and sg2conf package. This will give you a menuentry (System -> sg2conf) to install grub2 easily.

(No grub2 efi support currently, but I'm planning on that too, although I think the Slackware kernel lacks support for (u)efi systems.)

Thank you for info, Shador & Akuna. It's just that I dislike GRUB2 and am not all that comfortable will LILO. But then again am still 'a work in progress'.