Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:47:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rootfstype boot argument |
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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, ------ 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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