LILO can boot the following types of images:
The image type is determined by the name of the initial variable of the configuration section.
The image files can reside on any media that is accessible at boot time. There's no need to put them on the root device, although this certainly doesn't hurt.
In the configuration sections of all boot images, the following variables are recognized: alias, label, lock, optional, password and restricted.
In the configuration sections of all kernels (i.e. every boot image type except ``other operating system''), the following variables are recognized: append, literal, ramdisk, read-only, read-write, root and vga.