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

[John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>]

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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