On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: > There seem to be two solutions, replace grub with lilo or grub2, > neither of which conform to your "not invasive on the system or > procedure" requirement. > > Akemi Yagi suggested that you install F13 and chainload CentOS. It > sounds nuts but it seems like the right solution to avoid messing with > your default CentOS install - F13 as a bootloader (!). It reminds me > of a colleague who has a Mac and keeps a minimal OSX install to boot > F12 because he couldn't get F12 to work as a single-boot OS. I myself have one desktop machine that refuses to cooperate with grub (or should I say grub refuses to cooperate with the hardware?). Long story short, I installed lilo and decided not to spend more time on the problem. The machine has been running fine for years... :) Akemi