On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:10 +0200, Georg Lippold wrote:
> I found out, that the maximum length of the command line is 256 chars
> ('cat /proc/cmdline | wc -c'), the rest is truncated. One problem is,
> that the default options for a livecd take up very much space. This
> could be fixed in genkernel.
Try not using gensplash.
Turning off gensplash (with the default livecd-2005.1 theme) saves 45
characters on the command line. You can still actually use bootsplash
with this scenario, you just won't be using gentoo-sources to do it.
> On the other hand, I found a (pretty recent) kernel patch, that
> increases this limit to 512 chars:
>
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-June/005313.html
>
> As it seems, syslinux 3.09 (which can be used with genkernel) already
> supports it. Maybe it can be included in gentoo-sources? I checked with
> gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r2 and the feature is not included.
Well, catalyst is already using 3.09 of syslinux, and genkernel has
nothing to do with syslinux. If you think this is something worth
having, submit a bug report against gentoo-sources on
http://bugs.gentoo.org so they can add the patch. I wouldn't see a
problem with that considering I am about to add X resolution support to
mkxf86config, and it gets that information from the command line.
--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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