Anyway, the freed-up hard disk space was allocated to a small partition which became Slackware’s “ /boot” and I installed LILO to that /boot partition. If a 3rd party creates an invaluable add-on to provide functionality Microsoft did not include into Windows, then Microsoft will eventually copy its basic functionality into a half-hearted clone.
Microsoft has added a basic partition manager to Windows7 – something they do more often. In the end I decided to shrink the Windows partition a little bit and add a small Linux partition where I could install LILO. It will not support any OS that does not boot from the same hard disk that Windows7 is installed to… so I had some issues getting my Slackware added to the Windows boot menu because I had installed it on a second hard disk. Windows7 contains the command-line program BCDedit which you are supposed to use for editing your Windows boot menu. I wrote this post just to have this procedure available as a reference. Actually it was Windows Vista, not Windows7, which was the first to abandon good old C:\boot.ini and start writing its bootloader configuration into a binary block of data. However, I ran into a situation where I could not use LILO as the primary boot loader and I had to look into the Windows7 “boot configuration data” or BCD. That is the easiest way, and works always. When I create a Windows / Linux dual-boot computer I usually add Windows as an option to my LILO boot menu.
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