From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PO1Eu-0003hU-Kv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:57:52 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33411 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PO1Er-0003eM-2f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:57:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PO1Ep-0003d0-D7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:57:48 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:57700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PO1Ep-0003cj-8W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:57:47 -0500 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so1930108wwi.0 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:57:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=p+CzMjYhNCL2BbAasfBKh/YAQsmfYsVI+w4QOtAeBFE=; b=h6bA35NiCkxpS5/jrzYnI8TjxhSztBCT4X1ISkjZL4eOqkFVYVJad5dg5wu9ZpOHnX AlGEZnUAge3PD/HJxVP7hsMRULkkDKl2VtxW3YvWxEwvzD1H6QoPVvLNGyex/CCjzlCK BIhZOBciuH26ciyz+aCUZXNl7mxuS7LS+wxKg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hv7v3Hf/tP86hyy3hc8ULQHkKMCgj3LlttIYIPsQeE35+jzZvbJyAkPH+kkEAVFc/W 9XyTMYBbO9zjGVdtnNiACI0+0w79X4YvqusURModJGJ1T4ByoKrMjEgh+EMVIkdhLiwN IKYCEHzuqs6ZgXjx98fUgXexzFjkovr/JBlPc= Received: by 10.216.143.9 with SMTP id k9mr2863828wej.64.1291265864681; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:57:44 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.241.140 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:57:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101201102429.GT21862@riva.ucam.org> References: <20101201102429.GT21862@riva.ucam.org> From: Gnanasekar Loganathan Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:27:24 +0530 Message-ID: To: The development of GNU GRUB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: increasing grubenv file size X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:57:50 -0000 Hi Colin, We are storing environment variables like below: macaddr=3Dab:cd:ef:12:34:56 bootfile=3Dimage.gnana ipaddr=3D172.30.16.203 netmask=3D255.255.0.0 serverip=3D172.30.16.90 gatewayip=3D172.16.1.1 ftpuser=3Dusername ftppasswd=3Dpassword bootcmd=3Dflash(0,0):XXXX-OS-8-3-9-23.bin;default_boot;boot like wise we adding more environment variables in future. If the space is not enough for storing more variables we have to increase the size. If unable to increase the size we have to find alternate way to store these evnironment variables. Thanks, Gnana On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:45:15AM +0530, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote: >> Is that possible to increase the size of grubenv file? >> if so, please share the steps/procedure to increase the size of the >> grubenv file. > > It's currently fixed in code, although I think only the grub-editenv > utility actually cares. =C2=A0Could you share what you're trying to do wi= th > the environment block for which the default size of 1024 is inadequate? > > -- > Colin Watson =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 [= cjwatson@ubuntu.com] > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >