Comment 4 for bug 221664

Thanks for the 'large-memory' option tip. It makes sense that there would be problems without that, since without the option it seems lilo tries to load everything under 15 MB, and with an 8+ MB initramfs and a nearly 2 MB kernel, it seems plausible that something could go wrong.

I agree that this is a serious bug -- it almost rendered my system unbootable after an upgrade to Hardy, and if I hadn't had the Gutsy kernel still around, my system would have been a real pain to recover.