Yes, in the grub menu.lst, you can put kernel parameters after the kernel line, for example here I am passing an hdb= parm: title Slackware 9.1 root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 ro hdb=ide-scsi You can add more parms on the end of that line, this is the same as adding an append= line in your lilo. You can use the other method, kopt, as discussed, but that sounds like a lot more work than just appending the parms on the kernel line. I don't like "global" kernel parms anyways (ie those that would be at the top of a lilo.conf), I prefer to specify them for each kernel. -- Doug