Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:57:55 +0200 | | From | Georg Lippold <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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Hi,
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > 1. Why don't you put this variable at config, and allow the user to > specify the length during configuration? I have a patch that does just > that.
If you'd post it, it would probably get more attention :)
> 2. THE MOST IMPORTANT task is to update the documentation at > i386/boot.txt so that it will state that boot protocol 2.02+ field > cmd_line_ptr should not be truncated and can be up to 4K bytes. > Also fix "The kernel command line is null-terminated string up to 255 > characters long,..." this is good for the old boot protocol, but not > for the 2.02+ protocol. > > Without this fix the bootloaders (Lilo, Grub) will not fix their > code... So that users will still will not be able to use > 256 command > line.
syslinux >=3.09 supports 512 chars.
Greetings,
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