> Let me make sure I'm doing this correctly... I'm using lilo, and at the
> prompt, I use:
>
> linux lp=0
That's right. (It's for disabling the printer driver.)
> I wasn't sure if I was supposed to use quotes or not, though I believe
> not. When I do it this way on soft reboot, the kernel dies *before* it
> echoes the message about polling, as opposed to *after* as it was without
> the option. However, when I do the hard reboot (and use lp=0) it boots
> fine, but printing no longer works and the printer doesn't do its normal
> initialization.
Looks like it is whichever driver that gets initialised _after_ lp that is
causing the problem. Take a look at the list in chr_dev_init
(drivers/char/mem.c) and see which things you have got configured. After
that, it's block devices.
Tim.
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