[syslinux] testing out 6.03 network booting... (6.03-pre19)
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Aug 14 17:04:20 PDT 2014
>
> We are not ready for "prime-time" though.
> Using the "lpxelinux.0" file from 6.03-pre19 ...
>
> My RHEL5 installs, when using the "http://" for kernel, initrd and append lines, seem to be hitting some sort of parameter length limit.
> The culprit seems to be the long "append" line.
>
> The same append line, when NOT using "http://" work fine. (of course the initrd and kernel lines don't have http://xxxxxxxxx) and so are shorter.
>
> RHEL6 installs works fines with the long parameter lengths, http or otherwise.
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> * I'll try to shorten the WEB url for RHEL5 and see if it goes through.
>
How long is the parameter length? Really old kernels had a
511-character limit (current kernels have a 2047-character limit), so it
might not be anything to do with Syslinux...
-hpa
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