On 9 January 2013 09:26, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Any idea ? >>> >>> huh, i never knew that you could specify URLs in pxe configs... for >>> kernel and initrds >> >> Me neither, this is very cool actually. If you make it work again >> Olivier, that would deserve a mini wiki somewhere... > > Unless something changed, tough, there is still a length limit to appended > parameters (probably 255), so using an URL for initrd is likely to reach > this limit earlier.
good point! it's supposed to be fixed with kernel-2.6.26 but I guess some boot loaders do not use the latest boot protocol (/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc/x86/boot.txt) or still silently cut after 255/256 bytes.
