how many letters of 'LILO' are written first?
assuming that 'L' is written, then the 01's, it means that lilo iteself has been booted from your bootable mbr, but then it failed to pass control onto the 2nd stage of boot, and the error 01 means 'invalid disk', presumably the missing disk.
Lilo was told to initially boot from the mbr, and then load the rest of it's boto sequence from another drive, either a /boot/ or initrd.img, and since this is missing when you remove the disk, LILO cannot finish it's run.
you'll need to either load everything LILO needs in a very small /boot/ partition, or use XP's boot loader (ntloader or something) instead, once everything the boot loader needs is on the single drive, then it'll boot on it's own.
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