On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:11:31AM -0400, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Lilo seems to choke on Mandrake 9.1 loads with the option mem=1024. Doesn't "mem=1024" mean 1024 _bytes_? (I consulted /usr/src/linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt.) Or did you use "mem=1024M"? If so, did you try "mem=1023M" and "mem=1022M", in case a bit of your memory is reserved for other purposes (as sometimes happens on Thinkpads)?