Comment 2 for bug 260059

Hmm, the issue doesn't seem as straightforward after all.

In lilo there is already a check for a too large initrd (boot.c, search for FLAG_TOOBIG). I wonder why it wasn't triggered.

Could you attach your lilo.conf? And, if possible, the output of running lilo with a couple of "-v" flags (and without the "large-memory" option)?