Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:38 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> - Add some run-time argument to the loader to override the command >> line length. But I do not like this either because it allows >> breaking the Linux boot protocol. > > What exactly happens if we give the kernel a longer cmdline than it > supports? Does it just truncate, or fail to boot?
It truncates. > Why not allow users to pass as much as they want, and just warn them if > it's >255? I am not sure what the impact is. Linux has a memory map and I assume the memory after the commandline is used for other things, or might be overwritten. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
