[Mageia-dev] PXE boot on cauldron failed

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Thierry Vignaud (thierry.vignaud at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 9 January 2013 09:26, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Any idea ?
> >>>
> >>> huh, i never knew that you could specify URLs in pxe configs... for
> >>> kernel and initrds
> >>
> >> Me neither, this is very cool actually. If you make it work again
> >> Olivier, that would deserve a mini wiki somewhere...
> >
> > Unless something changed, tough, there is still a length limit to appended
> > parameters (probably 255), so using an URL for initrd is likely to reach
> > this limit earlier.
> 
> good point!
> it's supposed to be fixed with kernel-2.6.26 but I guess some boot loaders
> do not use the latest boot protocol (/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc/x86/boot.txt)
> or still silently cut after 255/256 bytes.

The command line lenght is not the problem as it was working before and
is working again since yesterday.

Regards.

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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