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

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:12:58PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Well, we have initramfs for the really big stuff.  The kernel
> shouldn't really need that much data, though.

except the initrd image is in many cases fairly fixed; right now i
have options i pass into initramfs by passing arguments on the command
line which initrd them reads, parses and uses that to grab a file from
the network

it's a tad disconnected to have to do this though