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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:10 +0200, Georg Lippold wrote: |
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> I found out, that the maximum length of the command line is 256 chars |
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> ('cat /proc/cmdline | wc -c'), the rest is truncated. One problem is, |
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> that the default options for a livecd take up very much space. This |
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> could be fixed in genkernel. |
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Try not using gensplash. |
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Turning off gensplash (with the default livecd-2005.1 theme) saves 45 |
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characters on the command line. You can still actually use bootsplash |
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with this scenario, you just won't be using gentoo-sources to do it. |
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> On the other hand, I found a (pretty recent) kernel patch, that |
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> increases this limit to 512 chars: |
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> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-June/005313.html |
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> As it seems, syslinux 3.09 (which can be used with genkernel) already |
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> supports it. Maybe it can be included in gentoo-sources? I checked with |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r2 and the feature is not included. |
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Well, catalyst is already using 3.09 of syslinux, and genkernel has |
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nothing to do with syslinux. If you think this is something worth |
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having, submit a bug report against gentoo-sources on |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org so they can add the patch. I wouldn't see a |
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problem with that considering I am about to add X resolution support to |
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mkxf86config, and it gets that information from the command line. |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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