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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote:

> Sure, but I think it's the *syntax* that matters here? options -> 
> nooptions / i486_cpu -> no??? It's OK to leave GENERIC alone, but HOW 
> are things switched off?

It appears to be an ommission in the file format.  I've e-mailed Ruslan, 
who implemented nodevice and nooption, to suggest that he also add nocpu. 
I wonder if there are other missed syntactic bits of note.

Robert N M Watson