David Douthitt
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 05:40:44 -0700
Tim Wegner wrote: > 2. One irritation it would be nice to fix (though it may go beyond the > "quick upgrade to EigerStein2Beta philosophy) would be to > somehow extend the 256 character limit of the syslinux.cfg > APPEND= line. When I add a second drive to PKGPATH and add > serial support, I'm over the limit. I can't do both. (I recall that David > did something in Oxygen to get around this.) I actually looked at this. This limit is imposed by the Linux kernel itself; it's built into the /proc/cmdline structure as I remember. The method I used to get around it was to shift from command line parameters to a configuration file instead. This file is then referred to by a command line parameter. Thus, all the details are in the configuration file, not on the command line - and since the form was up to me, I was able to enhance things drastically at the same time. The other thing I did was to check the /proc/cmdline structure to see how long it was; if it was 255 characters, emit a warning that the line may have been clipped. _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel