You really are making this lilo stuff too complicated for yourself. If you install XP first and then Knoppix, lilo should automagically add a line for XP so the only thing you really need to do is choose lilo to go to MBR and the next time you boot up you should have a choise between XP and Knoppix. It's only if something goes wrong that you need to manually edit lilo.

So basically I just have to make sure in LILO.CONF that this line is in there: boot=/dev/hda
Let me know if I am making this more difficult than it really is!!! Sorry fo repeating myself so much......So to sum it up.....By choosing to install LILO to MBR, I do that and also put the boot=/dev/hda line in LILO.CONF.....You are not confusing, I just have a problem with needing very explicit instructions! OK so I will use KNOPPIX to partition my disk, and for my Winxp partition, using CFDISK I will choose as "type" "FAT32" then let Winxp format that partition when I am installing. Whew! bob
That's the way I would do it, but OTOH I'm not at all as knowledgeable in this as you think while I still long for the days when you used a windows bootdisk and fdisk to do your windows formatting. I don't even know if the modern windows bootdisks let you format a partition to NTFS.