[Mageia-dev] PXE boot on cauldron failed

Wed Jan 9 20:40:09 CET 2013

* 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.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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