On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, John D. Baker wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Paul Goyette wrote:Thanks for all of this! It confirms that we're at the edge of the current limit.Just to confirm, I put back an un-modified "pxeboot_ia32.bin" (from 8.0_BETA) and the machines that load the extra module again fail with "bootinfo too big".Once you can confirm that increasing the limit does not break anything else, let me know and I can update BTINFO_MAXSo far, the machines I've booted using the "pxeboot_ia32.bin" with the increased BTINFO_MAX seem to work OK.
Sounds good. I'll go update the source shortly.
What sort of things are telltales of breakage possibly caused by the increased BTINFO_MAX?
Was looking mostly for indications that the increased table size would end up stomping on something else, with more-or-less unpredictable results. Since that hasn't happened, I'm guessing that this change is fairly safe.
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