lilo

lilo works well. No more booting from a floppy for me, for the most part. Left out the "prompt" option in /etc/lilo.conf but realized this left no window for me to boot windows, so added that in together with a timeout=30 (which is equivalent to 3 seconds). So linux is now my default OS.

my shoulder has been aching the whole day. As I told Jasper, this is probably because when I slept, my pillow was upside down: it's one of those support pillows, see, with a groove for the head... the groove was facing the bed and I didn't notice it (the pillowcase obscures this fact) until I woke up with a terrible ache.