[WBurkoth]

I'm trying to upgrade the memory on a computer that I purchased from a bankrupt dot-com... the computer is running W2K, but boots using Zenworks Imaging (Novell version of LILO?).

The BIOS recognizes the upgrade, but when "LILO Imaging" starts the computer reports the following error message and hangs

Kernal panic: vma_init: cannot alloc vm_area_struct cache
In swapper task - not syncing

How do I get this bad boy to boot? Any way to remove Zenworks/LILO without compromising the drive?

Thanks in advance for you help.

[srhoades]

You can boot from the win2k disk, go to console repair and do a fixmbr, that will wipe the boot loader. Then you can boot from a bootable linux disk and then just do a /sbin/lilo

[Squashman]

Does the computer require registered dimms?