limit to the length of args passed to kernel

From: Roberto De Leo (deleo@unica.it)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 05:23:57 EST


Hi,
I recently found out the you can't pass too many args to the kernel
through the LILO "append"
option. Actually I passed the args through the similar "append" option
of the SysLinux package
(http://syslinux.zytor.com/) but on their ML I have been told it is
equivalent to LILO's one and
that there is a 256 characters limit for passing args at boot time to
the kernel.

My question is: is this really a kernel limit or I misunderstood? if it
is a kernel limit,
is there any way to bypass it?

It would be very useful for a package I am developing: it is a micro
linux distro (the initrd.gz
is ~4MB) containing basically only a kernel and what you need to play a
movie through the FB.
The kernel (2.4.19) has been compiled with support for all possible FB
drivers, but for several
reasons it would be nice to have two booting options: one containing the
initialization for all
possible FB and one turning all of them off except the vesa FB.
Unfortunately though there are so many FB driverd that to turn them all
off it takes much more
than 256 chars!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please CC me any answer to deleo@unica.it, I'm not subscrribed to the ML.
Thanks,
 Roberto De Leo

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