Quote Originally Posted by Markus
As he stated he already has a bootmanager ......... Or are you saying that even if he uses another lilo, the knoppix lilo would still be needed? Can't think of a reason for that.
If he has a boot manager like XOSL or Smart Boot Manager, it knows nothing about Linux (or any other OS). It just loads the boot manager installed in the Linux partition (usually Lilo) and jumps to it, then Lilo takes over and loads everything needed for Linux. If he actually has another Lilo installed in the MBR, then that Lilo would need to know things about this Linux install, which is why people need to keep editing config files and reinstalling Lilo into the MBR, so just installing Lilo to the Linux partition would not help in this case (as he would have to edit the MBR copy with the information that it needs). Hopefully he is using XOSL or SBM and your advice to put Lilo on the Linux partition makes sense. But it doesn't stay there doing nothing, it takes an active part in the boot process. Since this Lilo already has it's config information set up by the program that installed it and it only has to load Linux, not offer a menu of multiple choices, you may not know it's being run, but it is.