mmm.... this seems on the right track, but after playing with vmalloc values of 192 to 768 and nothing but a few kernel panics, I've had no success... tried settings: video=vesa

ff and vga=normal, and added uppermem (which didn't seem to do it's job too well - I still got memory out of bounds errors after a certain number.
Am I missing something here - from what I can see these are the only options I can set to resolve this issue - am I doing something wrong, or can you suggest a way to resolve this ? I'll have a quick google now, but if you have any links etc, please let me know.
Thanks again - this makes sense now, I just need to get this config right.
Cheers