Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)

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Andi Kleen wrote:

Just increasing that constant caused various lilo setups to not boot
anymore. I don't know who is actually to blame, just wanting to
point out that this "obvious" patch isn't actually that obvious.


How would that even be possible (unless you recompiled LILO with the new headers)? There would be no difference in the memory image at the point LILO hands off to the kernel.

In order to reproduce this we need some details about your "various LILO setups", or this will remain as a source of cargo cult programming.

	-hpa

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