[syslinux] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Aug 31 15:01:57 PDT 2005


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 this to be a configuration option?  We have too many
> of those already.

Maybe not.  Another option would simply be to bump it up significantly 
(2x isn't really that much.)   4096, maybe.

	-hpa




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