[syslinux] Boot time arguments

[ganapathy murali krishnan]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> 
>> In all cases /proc/cmdline contains the following
>>
>> <vkernelopts> BOOT_IMAGE=<kernelname> <boottimeoptions>
>>
>> where <vkernelopts> is the append line in the appropriate label section,
>> <kernelname> is the kernel in the appropriate label section, and
>> <boottimeoptions> is whatever I typed in at boot time.
>>
>> Depending on the length of the <vkernelopts> they may/may not show up in
>> /proc/1/environ. For now, I can read that information off 
>> /proc/cmdline and create
>> the appropriate environment variables myself.
>>
> 
> Wow.  That sounds like a kernel bug to me.
> 

This is a kernel which I compiled using make menuconfig....
Could a wrong choice there have caused this or is this
deeper than that.

- Murali