Re: PassingBootParameter?

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

             Hello!

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:22:12AM -0800, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I should have mentioned that I have tried it both ways
> 
> kernel /boot/yourkernel ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9

This line is correct.

>       and
> kernel /boot/yourkernel  append="ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9"

This one is not...

>   although I expected this to fail as a lilo specific method of passing
> arguments.

Which should be the case.

> As lilo seems to boot OK grub should have no problem.  With the
> reconfirmation that
>       kernel /boot/yourkernel ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9
> appears like the correct way to do this, perhaps the commas are not
> permitted and I need to pass the arguement in quotes?  Any ideas? 

I confirm this is the correct way to do this...

> The messages scroll so fast I can't read them absolutely, however the PCI
> errors are almost immediately in the boot process and of course never get
> written to any log file that I am aware.

What kind of pci errors do you get?

By any chance, could the last message look like this one?
VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
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