Syslinux - Oct 2002 - maximum number of characters in APPEND

There is a maximum of 255 characters of parameters you can pass to the
kernel.

At least that's what I recall, but I may be wrong.


-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto De Leo [mailto:deleo at unica.it] 
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:19 PM
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: [syslinux] maximum number of characters in APPEND


Hi,
I wonder whether there is a maximum number of characters you can use for 
the APPEND label.

I am using the following options:

append initrd=initrd.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 
ramdisk_size=10000 rw root=/dev/ram0 video=matrox:off video=aty128fb:off 
video=atyfb:off video=radeon:off video=rivafb:off video=sisfb:off 
video=hgafb:off video=tridentfb:off video=vesa:on video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr 
vga=0x312 LABEL=MoviX

and the system does not know the variable LABEL after the boot. I tried to
put the option "LABEL=MoviX" closer to "append" and that way
it works,
so something strage is happening...

Thanks,
 Roberto De Leo

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Hi,
I wonder whether there is a maximum number of characters you can use for 
the APPEND label.

I am using the following options:

append initrd=initrd.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 
ramdisk_size=10000 rw root=/dev/ram0 video=matrox:off video=aty128fb:off 
video=atyfb:off video=radeon:off video=rivafb:off video=sisfb:off 
video=hgafb:off video=tridentfb:off video=vesa:on video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr 
vga=0x312 LABEL=MoviX

and the system does not know the variable LABEL after the boot.
I tried to put the option "LABEL=MoviX" closer to "append"
and that way
it works,
so something strage is happening...

Thanks,
 Roberto De Leo

Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> There is a maximum of 255 characters of parameters you can pass to the
> kernel.
> 
> At least that's what I recall, but I may be wrong.
> 
That's absolutely correct.

	-hpa