AFAIK no, there's no difference. they both kick out the BIOS and any "real-mode" programs that are running, the only difference is the method used, LILO uses native code and a few BIOS vectors, loadlin uses VCPI. On Tuesday November 27, 2001 04:34 pm, you wrote: > Hi. > Is there > any difference in system resource availability if I load Linux from a dos > prompt as oposed to loading Linux right from the Lilo prompt? > Just curious. > Later