Looks like a minor rev of lilo was just released. Tested on my amd64 box, it boots the kernel fine.
+*lilo-24.1 (22 Jan 2015) + + 22 Jan 2015; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +lilo-24.1.ebuild, + +files/lilo-24.1-novga.patch: + Avoid interactive password configurations, based on a report and initial + patch by Andrew Savchenko in bug #497288. New upstream release, closes bug + #536942 by Joshua Kinard.