In message <200602200112.k1K1CYHF029586@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:


>
>If this were generalized, it could allow people to do all sorts of neat
>things.  BSD/OS had a somewhat similar feature; /etc/boot.default could be
>used to set parameters, ranging anywhere from specifying a forced size for
>maximum memory, to driver-specific flags, or forcing a given driver not to
>probe.  (Generically, xx0 port=-1 suppressed probes of the xx driver.)
>

I miss that feature....

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb