Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:16:23 +0200 |
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On Sunday 27 August 2006 20:50, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > The last time I tried this on x86-64 lilo on systems that used EDD broke. > > EDD uses part of the bootup page too. So most likely it's not that simple. > > > > And please don't shout your subjects. > > > > On i386, the command line is never stored in the bootup page; only a > pointer to it is. The copying is done straight into the > saved_command_line buffer in the kernel BSS (head.S lines 79-104). > > x86-64 does the same thing, but in C code (head64.c lines 45-56.) Thus, > if you had a problem with LILO, I suspect the problem was inside LILO > itself, and not a kernel issue.
Just increasing that constant caused various lilo setups to not boot anymore. I don't know who is actually to blame, just wanting to point out that this "obvious" patch isn't actually that obvious.
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