Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
diff -urNp linux-2.6.16/Documentation/i386/boot.txt linux-2.6.16.new/Documentation/i386/boot.txt
--- linux-2.6.16/Documentation/i386/boot.txt 2006-03-20 07:53:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.16.new/Documentation/i386/boot.txt 2006-04-14 01:55:47.000000000 +0300
@@ -235,11 +235,8 @@ loader to communicate with the kernel.
relevant to the boot loader itself, see "special command line options"
below.
-The kernel command line is a null-terminated string currently up to
-255 characters long, plus the final null. A string that is too long
-will be automatically truncated by the kernel, a boot loader may allow
-a longer command line to be passed to permit future kernels to extend
-this limit.
+The kernel command line is a null-terminated string. A string that is too
+long will be automatically truncated by the kernel.
If the boot protocol version is 2.02 or later, the address of the
kernel command line is given by the header field cmd_line_ptr (see
@@ -260,6 +257,9 @@ command line is entered using the follow
covered by setup_move_size, so you may need to adjust this
field.
+ The kernel command line *must* be 256 bytes including the
+ final null.
+
**** SAMPLE BOOT CONFIGURATION
This chunk is confusing at the very best.
-hpa
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