[syslinux] testing out 6.03 network booting... (6.03-pre19)

H. Peter Anvin
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:04:20 -0000

>
> 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.
>
> * 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