From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
debian-boot@lists.debian.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org,
debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an installer for sarge
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:05:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040412150556.GT20209@linuxcare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081779569.1804.11.camel@mulgrave>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:19:27AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:12, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > It may be relevant that the ISO had a rather long kernel commandline,
> > relative to the 127 char limit that palo claims. I'm never sure
> > whether that 127 char limit is before or after palo adds all the
> > console and sti related parameters though.
>
> That limit is absolute and may not be overrun. The co-ordinates of the
> 64 bit kernel lie immediately after the 128 char buffer. Usually the
> system is unbootable if you overrun this limit.
Unbootable, or unbootable on 64 bit h/w?
> Unfortunately, palo is rather poor about checking this limit when
> installing the image or modifying the command line...
and last time I tried building palo on a sid system to investigate
these hangs on boot, the result didn't work at all :(
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-12 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20040411171831.GA15032@mcmartin.ca>
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2004-04-12 11:12 ` [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an installer for sarge Richard Hirst
2004-04-12 11:12 ` Richard Hirst
2004-04-12 14:19 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-12 15:05 ` Richard Hirst [this message]
2004-04-12 15:15 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-12 17:15 ` Richard Hirst
2004-04-12 17:15 ` Richard Hirst
2004-04-12 18:13 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-12 18:13 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-12 17:18 ` [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not havean " Andy Walker
2004-04-12 17:18 ` Andy Walker
2004-04-12 15:15 ` [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an " James Bottomley
2004-04-12 15:05 ` Richard Hirst
2004-04-12 14:19 ` James Bottomley
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