Bugzilla Bug 183443

Hello,

After more than a year I've succeeded in making Linux accept >256 command-lines
on x86 and related arch, available since 2.6.21.

Grub developers do not sync up.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?13606

I use the following patch to do the trick. Please consider adding this.

Thanks.

Created an attachment (id=123236) [details]
grub-0.97-linux-0202.patch

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+1

Needed this patch because the command-line was truncated. Please include this
patch. Thanks.

In -r5, please test it from package.mask.

Unmasked and testet -r5.

Compiles despite some type-punned warnings flawlessly, installs and system is
still bootable with long command-line, which sets up my encrypted partitions.
No unexpected behavior.

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.23-gentoo-r9-stable i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r9-stable i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:15:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -m3dnow -msse
-mmmx"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/bin/mygenkernel /usr/sbin/run-crons"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -m3dnow -msse
-mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/            
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/               
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/               
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/               
ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/home/ftp/binpkg/"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS=""
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=500"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/alon-barlev
/usr/local/portage/layman/haskell /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise
/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/modified
/usr/local/portage/own"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa amr amrnb
amrr amrwb apm async audacious audiofile bash-completion berkdb bindist bl
branding bzip2 cairo cardbus cjk cli cpudetection cracklib crypt ctype cups
dbus dga divx dri dvd dvdread eds encode evo exif expat extensions fam fbcon
fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd
gdbm gedit gif gimp gimpprint glade glibc-omitfp glitz gmedia gmp gnutls gs gsm
gtk gtkhtml guile hddtemp hdf5 iconv icq idn imagemagick imap imlib iproute2
isdnlog jack java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kerberos keyscrub kpathsea latex
lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libwww live lm_sensors logrotate lzo mad madwifi
memlimit midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap
musepack ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pch pcmcia pcre
pda pdf perl plotutils png posix postgres ppds pppd print python quicktime
readline real realmedia reflection ruby rubytests samba sasl sdl server session
simplexml slang sndfile soap sockets speex spell spl sse ssl suhosin svg swat
syslog tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales vcd vidix
vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs winbind wma wmf wmp wxwindows
x264 x86 xanim xine xinetd xml xorg xpm xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="via82xx via82xx-modem mpu401" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym
copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat
linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile
authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd
deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident
imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so
speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="fuji ptp2"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="savage"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

Confirmed.

There seems to be a problem with this patch where random junk is appended to
the commandline passed to the kernel breaking booting for a number of people
(in my case the root= parameter got corrupted), see bug 216307