Re: [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

John Coffman
2006-05-05T18:14:04Z

It is probably fairly easy to increase the LILO command line to 512
bytes (including terminator). Beyond 512 there are complicating factors:

1. "lilo -R ..." -- the space reserved for the stored command line
is 1 sector.
2. configuration option "fallback" -- again 1 sector is the amount reserved.

There are 2 buffers used for the command line. Since these are
allocated on sector boundaries, 512 should present no serious problems.

--John

At 07:35 AM Friday 5/5/2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>This should be a simple modification and I don't see why we
>>should fight on the LILO problem (if exists) when we have
>>the compile time config options alternative.
>>People who uses LILO may leave the default 256 value. Other
>>may migrate to a higher one.
>
>This is cargo-cult programming, sorry. Let's find out what the
>problem is and fix it right. If that involves fixing LILO and/or
>dealing with a LILO bug, we have ways we can do that.
>
> -hpa

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