How can I boot without typing in “ahaxxxx=nn,nn,nn” every time?
Where a disk device cannot be autodetected it is necessary to supply the kernel with a command device parameter string, such as: aha152x=0x340,11,3,1 This parameter string can be supplied in several ways using LILO: • By entering it on the command line every time the system is booted via LILO. This is boring, though. • By using the LILO “lock” keyword to make it store the command line as the default command line, so that LILO will use the same options every time it boots. • By using the APPEND statement in the lilo config file. Note that the parameter string must be enclosed in quotes. For example, a sample command line using the above parameter string would be: zImage aha152x=0x340,11,3,1 root=/dev/sda1 lock This would pass the device parameter string through, and also ask the kernel to set the root device to /dev/sda1 and save the whole command line and reuse it for all future boots. A sample APPEND statement is: APPEND = “aha152x=0x340,11,3,1” Note that the parameter string must NOT
