* James Worrest (jjworrest@ditol.com) [020330 09:48]:

Perhaps I haven't looked that carefully through my SuSE 7.3 Personal edition manuals, but when and why would you use the failsave mode? ---Jim

It disables some things that tend to cause problems on buggy hardware--ideautotune, apic, etc. Have a look in /etc/lilo.conf to see the whole list. -- -ckm