I tried that once already and it did not see mandrake on hda4, Kanotix is on hda1. Windows is somehow on hda2 - I think that happened because I resized the windows partition with the mandrake installer and ended up with a partition before and after hda2(windows). But I think my entry might have been wrong in that installation with lilo. I have it configured right now and these three boot correctly. I just don't want to fix it again because it's not broken.

Is that the only way to do it? Is there any way to do it from the root partition?