The reason I say this is because the experience I had with GRUB ..
(graphical replacement for lilo)
Try install latest GRUB based distro (like SUSE) on nforce chipset motherboard =>you won't .
GRUB makes a fuzz with vga and other integrated devices. (suchas notebooks too).
When integrating directly graphical depended show-tricks you endanger
the compability with such all-integrated devices. (and all integrated devices is what were headin' to).
This explains my worries about graphical stuff at boot.
True, that for JoeAverage this is very smooth. But from creator,helpdesker side this gets back to windooze troubleshooting.
At the end you don't know anymore what's happening when there's a failure at boot. All you can do is with trial-and-error and guessing what's happening.