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

Andi Kleen
2006-08-27T18:29:00Z

Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> writes:

> Extending the kernel parameters to a 2048 bytes for
> boot protocol >=2.02 of i386, ia64 and x86_64 architectures for
> linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2.
>
> Current implementation allows the kernel to receive up to
> 255 characters from the bootloader. In current environment,
> the command-line is used in order to specify many values,
> including suspend/resume, module arguments, splash, initramfs
> and more. 255 characters are not enough anymore.

The last time I tried this on x86-64 lilo on systems that used EDD broke.
EDD uses part of the bootup page too. So most likely it's not that simple.

And please don't shout your subjects.

-Andi