Ask Slashdot:Boot Parameters

We've got an easy one today. Jeremy Lepel writes " A friend and I have recently updated our kernels from 2.0.33 to 2.0.34. I had ppa support included in the kernel in 2.0.33 and he had it as a module. With the recent upgrade we've both included PPA v1.46 into the new kernel, but neither of us have been able to get the damn thing to work. I noticed during the boot process that it probes two of the parallel ports and then the scsi reports no paritions found. I've set my parallel port to match the 0x278 which is being probed on startup but this didn't change anything. I read in the README.ppa about a "lilo/loadlin command line" where you set "ppa=0x278,0" but I can't figure this out, either. Any help would be appreciated!"

I've actually always wondered how you can set those parameters by merely using a boot disk with a kernel image on it. rdev works for root devices, but what about boot parameters?

Another sort of related topic that I'm curious if anyone has plans for. How about a nice graphical viewer for lilo.conf? Everyone I've seen is far to technical for a newbie. I feel the hardest parts about a newbie Linux install is hard disk partitioning and Lilo. Disk Druid and similiar apps are taking the pain out of the former, but what about the latter?