Hello,
Thanks for your patience.
Yes, I have read the lilo man page, and have looked up similar issues with google.
Maybe my plop installation could be the problem. As I stated, I booted plop from network.
I partitioned the HD and installed plop in /dev/hda2.
The drive has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, dev/hda3, /dev/hda4
I downloaded the ubuntu iso and rsync the mounted iso to /dev/hda3
Then I tried to edit lilo, but it's where I'm stuck.
I have just tried:
image=/dev/hda3
label=ubuntu-install
append="/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper root=/dev/ram1 ramdisk_size=1048576 rw"
and lilo without any other options seems to have worked. I will see if the option comes up on reboot.
I haven't had to use lilo in years when I used it back in the RH7 days, until now.
Thanks for your excellent support.