Follow-up Comment #20, bug #13606 (project grub):
Hello,
The boot protocol 2.02 had the cmd_line_ptr which points to null terminated
string. There was a comment in the documentation that this string will be
truncated to 256 by the kernel but may be longer.
grub developers interpreted the above
Follow-up Comment #17, bug #13606 (project grub):
There's a new loader now, in loader/i386/linux.c, which for
now is only used on coreboot (but is trivial to enable it on
i386-pc by editting conf/i386-pc.*). Does it also exhibit
this problem?
As far as I can see,
Follow-up Comment #13, bug #13606 (project grub):
Hello,
Marco Okuji: could you take care of the legal stuff?
What legal stuff? This is only a patch.
Alon: could you include a ChangeLog entry?
Something such as:
cmd_line_ptr should not be truncated to 256.
You may also
want to send a
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Follow-up Comment #10, bug #13606 (project grub):
Nobody using grub-2, it even not released, right?
So why not push a new release to active users?
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Follow-up Comment #8, bug #13606 (project grub):
Hello,
Please notice that 2.6.21-rc1 already support 256 command-line size. Please
checkout the patch provided or create your own, so that users who use grub
will be able to use this new feature.
Thanks!
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Follow-up Comment #7, bug #13606 (project grub):
Can you please look at file#10589 and confirm you adding this on grub 2.0?
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may allow a longer command line to be passed to permit future
kernels to extend this limit.
Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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Next kernel will most probably be released with default of 1024 command line
buffer, so let's get ready...
Thanks!
Alon Bar-Lev
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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #13606 (project grub):
Hello Yoshinori,
I will be happy to read your comments regarding my reply...
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Follow-up Comment #3, bug #13606 (project grub):
Thank you Yoshinori for your response!!!
I've entered this issue since once I had a need for 256 command line
length... And started investigate why it cannot be done.
I've read the boot protocol, and it seems the old boot protocol had a
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #13606 (project grub):
Hello,
Can anybody confirm this is a bug?
This behavior is the same in GRUB 2... So I think it is a good time to fix
it...
Thanks!
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Category: Booting
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Action Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Alon Bar-Lev
Originator Email: [EMAIL
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