Thank you for the reply,
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Hello Peter, I've written a reply before but got no response...
The idea of putting arguments in initramfs is not practical, since the
whole idea is to have the same image of system and affecting its
behavior using the boo
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Hello Peter, I've written a reply before but got no response...
The idea of putting arguments in initramfs is not practical, since the
whole idea is to have the same image of system and affecting its
behavior using the boot loader...
No, you're wrong. The boot loader
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
better idea. Feel free to send your patch through m
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:07 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:01:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up
> > significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.
>
> I wonder if we're not at the point where we ne
Thank you all for your quick responses!
I want to add some of my comments.
1. Kernel parameters is a great mechanism to control how the kernel
behaves without modifying any file in kernel,
putting options in a file maybe seems a good solution... but it lower
the power of the boot loader,
Jesper Juhl wrote:
Well, it wouldn't have to be initrd specifically. Generally what's
needed is *some* way to tell the kernel "please read more options from
location ". The interresting bit is what 's supposed to be.
This is what initramfs (as opposed to initrd) does quite well.
-hpa
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in
> initrd or similar from which to load additional options.
a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix
image
the point is some bootloader
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:01:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up
significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.
I wonder if we're not at the point where we need something different
to what we have now. Th
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in
initrd or similar from which to load additional options.
a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix
image
the po
On 9/1/05, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in
> > initrd or similar from which to load additional options.
>
> a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:12:58PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, we have initramfs for the really big stuff. The kernel
> shouldn't really need that much data, though.
except the initrd image is in many cases fairly fixed; right now i
have options i pass into initramfs by passing argument
On 9/1/05, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:01:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up
> > significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.
>
> I wonder if we're not at the point where we need s
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:01:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up
> significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe.
I wonder if we're not at the point where we need something different
to what we have now. The concept of a command
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
better idea. Feel free to send your patch through me.
So we really need t
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
> akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
> better idea. Feel free to send your patch through me.
So we really need this to be a configur
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Hello Peter,
I am sorry that I am contacting you directly... Please refer me to
correct contact if you are not the one.
Lately, I've found that 256 bytes long kernel parameters are not enough
for my configuration.
I've found the place where the kernel defines the lengt
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