Quote Originally Posted by Markus
The installer should ask you if you want lilo in MBR or the root partition of your knoppix install. If you choose the root partition lilo will happily go there and stay there doing nothing.
Actually, it does not "do nothing". When installed on the Linux partition, the Linux bootstrap still does a lot; it is what actually loads the kernel and gets Linux started. A boot loader like SM or XOSL knows nothing about how to start specific systems, including Linux. But when put on the Linux partition Lilo does not need to present it's own menu or have to worry about any other OSs that might be installed, now or later. The difference is important, because some might think that if Lilo is installed on the Linux partition it will stay there doing nothing, then it doesn't need to be there at all, and it does.