Re: "bootinfo too big" netbooting amd64-8.0_BETA?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

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_MAX

So far, the machines I've booted using the "pxeboot_ia32.bin" with the
increased BTINFO_MAX seem to work OK.

What sort of things are telltales of breakage possibly caused by the
increased BTINFO_MAX?

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