Hmmm, you should have given us this info before ... since you can't use both isolinux and lilo (they are both bootloaders, isolinux is for booting from CDs), I assume you are bootstrapping your install from lilo? If so, you need to provide the parameters isolinux would normally provide to the kernel (look in the syslinux.cfg) via the append line of your lilo.conf
Thanks, I added "expert" to the append line, and that did the trick.
