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[Tom Wilson]

Thanks Joel.  I give those a whirl and see if I can pull it off.  

On Saturday 13 April 2002 10 22:53 pm, Joel Hammer's voice rose above 
the ones in my head and declared:
> You can pass parameters at boot time, and they can, if memory serves,
> be put into lilo.conf.
> Here is what I have in mine.
> image = /vmlinuz.works.Jan222000
>        label = LinuxJan22
>         root = /dev/hda3
>         read-only
>         append = "aha152x=0x340,12,7 ether=0,0,eth1, hdc=52946,16,63"
>
> I don't have to supply anything but the information that I have two
> NIC's. They are both PCI, but you sound like you have ISA cards.
>
> This is an example from a book for lilo.conf:
> ether=IRQ,port,mem_start,men_end,name
> ether=5, 0x280, 0xD800, 0xDFFF, eth0
>
> This example didn't use the append parameter. You may have to
> experiment.
>
> Make sure you have more than one lilo.conf entry so you can reboot
> the computer if you really mess one of the lilo.conf entries.
> Joel
>
[snips of tales o' woe]