Re: [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

From: John Coffman
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 14:13:48 EST


It is probably fairly easy to increase the LILO command line to 512 bytes (including terminator). Beyond 512 there are complicating factors:

1. "lilo -R ..." -- the space reserved for the stored command line is 1 sector.
2. configuration option "fallback" -- again 1 sector is the amount reserved.

There are 2 buffers used for the command line. Since these are allocated on sector boundaries, 512 should present no serious problems.

--John


At 07:35 AM Friday 5/5/2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
This should be a simple modification and I don't see why we
should fight on the LILO problem (if exists) when we have
the compile time config options alternative.
People who uses LILO may leave the default 256 value. Other
may migrate to a higher one.

This is cargo-cult programming, sorry. Let's find out what the problem is and fix it right. If that involves fixing LILO and/or dealing with a LILO bug, we have ways we can do that.

-hpa


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