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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm also aware of an older and (apparently) LILO-specific way to do
> it -- using something like "pas16=" where the appropriate driver code
> has to parse the value string (eg., in drivers/scsi/pas16.c):
> 

Utter nonsense.  The only reason these older drivers mention "LILO" is
because some of these driver authors thought LILO was the only native
Linux bootloader.

	-hpa