Thank you!
I actually found out exactly what prevented my CD to boot, the DMA acceleration, so I booted with "knoppix nodma", and it works!

That lilo.conf file will definitely be useful to me, though, thanks for pointing it out! Lilo seems to have put way too many Linuxes in there (seems to be different kernels...not something I really need), and put too many windowses in there (just FAT32 partitions). Anyway, it will be nice to get those out of there.