[syslinux] Kernel command line truncation

[H. Peter Anvin]

Firstname Surname wrote:
> Yes, I know that 2.4 kernel sereies has limitation of 255 symbols or
> additional arguments.
> (There are some difficulties in moving to 2.6 because of legasy
> software that need to be supported)
> 
> But ... as I wrote the problem is that after kernel boot only about
> 130 symbols from syslinux.cfg APPEND directive are available. The rest
> of the string from APPEND directive is truncated. The whole string in
> APPEND directive is shorter then 255 symbols.
> That is a very strange thing
> 

Don't have a good explanation for that at this time.  What does 
/proc/cmdline show?

	-hpa