[syslinux] Last character of the boot prompt gone missing ?

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Dag Wieers wrote:

> I think I found a problem with syslinux where if you have an entry in the 
> syslinux config file (eg. linux) and you type some additional parameters on 
> the boot-prompt (eg. noacpi) the last character of the prompt is cut off (and 
> missing from /proc/cmdline).
>
> This does not seem to happen for the append line in the config file, only for 
> additional parameters on the boot prompt. (I guess it would have been more 
> obvious if it was)
>
> Can someone verify if they see that same problem ?

Nevermind, I hit the boot prompt limit again and funny enough all the 
different scenarios it was only 1 character. I just noticed that it's not 
necessarily so.

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