[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.11-pre5 -- release candidate -- release on Tuesday

[Jim Cromie]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> SYSLINUX 3.11-pre5 is hereby a bug fix release candidate.  If I don't 
> receive any problem reports, I will release it as-is on Tuesday, 
> August 30.
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
>
>     -hpa
>

Im seeing a truncation of the boot-line at 256, despite the 511 
command_line_len in the code,
and my pxelinux.cfg/default, which contains:

LABEL   H 2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1
  MENU LABEL    ^h.  2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1
  KERNEL        vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1
  APPEND        console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/truck 
nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 
panic=5 initrd=initrd-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1.img 
kgdboe=7000 at 192.168.42.100/, at 192.168.42.1/


on-console, it shows:

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 > vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1 console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/truck 
nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 
panic=5 initrd=initrd-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1.img kgdboe=7000 at 192.168.42.1

note the lack of '/, at 192.168.42.1/'  
It almost looks like a parsing error, but it is a 256 truncation thing.
as shown by adding a nonsense boot param 'booble'

 > vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1 console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/truck 
nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 
panic=5 initrd=initrd-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-kgdb-v1.img booble kgdboe=7000 at 192.1



Ill start working backwards to find the version responsible.