Description of problem: The following is a quote from H. Peter Anvin posting on lkml (the whole text for example here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/603517 and see also a related thread). <quote> It has been reported that while this patch fixes old LILO, and possibly some other boot loaders (unknown), it has also broken older versions of SYSLINUX: they still boot, but the command line is truncated (exactly how much depends on the BIOS, but typical values are around 130 bytes.) This is definitely traceable to a bug in SYSLINUX that was already fixed in release 3.50 (the current version of SYSLINUX is 3.52). </quote> Versions used by Fedora are quite a bit lower than 3.50.
Oh, corresponding patches which would trigger that went into 2.6.23.3 and today, in quick succession, we are at 2.6.23.7. :-)
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