The version of lilo shipped with Redhat 6.1 truncates the kernel command line to 79 characters. This can have various bad results, especially if it chops off a parameter in the middle; it likely the root cause of bugs #7032 and #5747. A report on the linux-kernel mailing list suggests that this is the fault of the EBDA patch.
Assigned to dledford
verified problem using lilo-21.4.1-2 ... so sample prompt as here LILO Boot: linux reconfig expanded to (in /proc/cmdline): BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-100 mem=60m reconf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 note the truncation of reconfig ...
*** Bug 8305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in newer lilo packages