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

H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27T19:32:50Z

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