# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append="mem=255M pci=reverse maxcpus=2"
#
boot = /dev/hda
# compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
This it the top of my lilo.conf file, so yes.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > In order to get the off board cards to boot you have to enable the option
> > first, now comes the FUN!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > You are now required to determine the PCI card slot order.
> > Since LILO does not like to boot drives beyond the fourth device, in IDE
> > land. You must call "pci=reverse" to invert the pci-device scan order.
>
> Is it possible to avoid this by using 'append' ?
>
> ie. instead of specifying a 'root' in a lilo.conf's image section, add
> 'append=root=/dev/...'
>