after I installed Lm and got the nic/vid working I noticed that linux was only seeing 10M of my 127M of ram I added the mem=128M to lilo.con ran lilo and rebooted after the reboot I get a GPF (general protection fault) right after the detection of memory it reads: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[c0123783] EEFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 0000009f ebx: c7fff0d8 ecx: c021fe40 edx: c021fe40 esi: 00000028 edi: ffffffff ebp: c7ffffe0 esp: c0239ec8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0239000) more info on Stack, Call trace and Code then it says Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not syncing what the heck is all this? why did linux barf on my mem=128M??? I do have 128M, I see 128M in winblows 95/98/NT4/win2k any help would be greatly appreciated Regards, Ron