Lilo

[gsc]

If Fecora eventually works as planned, I imagine it could always appear
> as a contrib package.


Which is useless if you cannot boot with grub. The installer needs to 
install grub or you'll never beable to install contrib packages.

FWIW, I have such a system.


HAHAHA! Great, Thomas... 
I was force to install RedHat 9 with Lilo (minimal) to install Lilo and then Install Fedora without change the boot partition, ease ?! :-)