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[Tom <question77500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77500 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77500

Tom proposed the following answer:
Your ram is quoted as 1002 but it's not a proper computer number.  The
nearest computer number is 1024.  So the space at the beginning of the
drive is better as 2148 but an exact figure isn't really what's
required.  If there's a tick box saying "Round to cylinders" then it's
worth ticking it.  Also the minimum size that your linux-swap could
usefully be is 1002, rounded to 1024 for safety and add the 100Mb on so
that's about 1124.  So anywhere between 1124 and 2148 (or a little over)
is about perfect.  If you give it 2148 then you're more prepared for
perhaps adding more ram to your machine sometime in the future.  There's
2 main reasons that quoted ram is slightly less than a full computery
type number and the most likely reason is probably that some parts of
the ram have become corrupted and have been carefully marked as areas
that can't be used.  So i would guess that your ram sticks are one of
the newer kinds such as DDR or DDR2

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