Yes, I did find yesterday that it is SEP, i.e. not strictly a kernel issue
because what arrives in the PARAM block is already chopped. So,
the patch used by SuSE you mention is probably used by Red Hat as well
and causes the problem.
I have not looked at LILO sources yet (plain or patched) to confirm that
plain compiled LILO works fine with respect to >79 command lines.
Regards,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 nathan.zook@amd.com wrote:
> > > Oh, the long command line problem is getting a partial fix, too. For our
> > > edification, could you send an actual command line that is getting chopped?
> > > It will let me know if my fix sufficies, or if a deeper fix is needed.
> >
> > # wc /proc/cmdline
> > 1 7 79 /proc/cmdline
>
> I recently noticed that the LILO that comes with SuSE 6.3 chops the
> command line at 79 characters.
>
> The LILO that comes with SuSE 6.3 has a patch called
> "lilo-newEBDA.patch" applied which limits the length of the command line
> to 79 characters. If this is the problem you are seeing then remove the
> patch and recompile the source rpm. (I can also mail you a new rpm if
> you want.)
>
> Walter
>
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