Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31T22:02:18Z

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
>>akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
>>better idea. Feel free to send your patch through me.
>
> So we really need this to be a configuration option? We have too many
> of those already.

Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up significantly
(2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.

-hpa