I still have lilo on my slackware-based machine. And you know what, while I have countless troubles with grub (couldn't find the initrd, couldn't install itself

I still have lilo on my slackware-based machine. And you know what, while I have countless troubles with grub (couldn't find the initrd, couldn't install itself to the MBR though it pretended there was absolutely no error, etc, etc), LILO never failed me: when you run "lilo" if it says "installed successfully", well at least it's installed.