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SubjectRe: [PATCH] rootfstype boot argument
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > b) most people are running hacked versions of LILO shipped with major
> > distributions (Red Hat, SuSE etc) which have a limit of 79 bytes per
> > command line. One can overcome this limit with my BCP thing but only a
> > handful of people actually use it.
>
> Tigran,
>
> Tell me more and send it to me, please......
> The truncation of LILO limited command lines has caused me headaches in
> the past.
>

ah, good - some niche market for BCP is being created :)

http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/bcp/bcp-2.3.47-p6.patch

as for the LILO hack, it is caused by the large EBDA patch.

Regards,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran



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