Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 17:02:35 EST


Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
better idea. Feel free to send your patch through me.

So we really need this to be a configuration option? We have too many
of those already.

Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.

-hpa
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