I can get a lilo boot using the bootfrom cheatcode on an ext2 partition to work fine without the modified minirt.gz. I did a tohd cheatcode to get the compressed file system to my partition.

My ISO and my /KNOPPIX directory live on /dev/hda2. Here is the lilo.conf I used

Paul

vga=791
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
noprompt
append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce"

default=FROMISO

image=/mnt/hda2/boot/vmlinuz
label=FROMISO
initrd=/mnt/hda2/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
append="lang=us splash wheelmouse xvrefresh=60 bootfrom=/dev/hda2/knx4.0*.iso myconfig=/dev/hda2"