A page in your DokuWiki was added or changed. Here are the details: Date : 2017/07/21 20:08 Browser : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0 IP-Address : 78.43.91.217 Hostname : HSI-KBW-078-043-091-217.hsi4.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de Old Revision: https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:tce?rev=1497959930 New Revision: https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:tce Edit Summary: [Installing a boot loader] - Issues with GRUB-legacy and possibly GRUB4DOS as well User : stefanbaur @@ -524,8 +524,16 @@ * Use GRUB-legacy for ext* file systems. * Use syslinux when installing on FAT* file systems. Should work with ext* file systems as well (using extlinux), if you don't want GRUB-legacy. * Use GRUB4DOS when dealing with an NTFS file system (say, you're trying to turn an existing Windows XP installation into a ThinClient). * read section [[doc:howto:tce#boot_parameters_for_x2go-tce|Boot Parameters for X2Go-TCE]] to find out what changes to make and what to put where it says FURTHER-OPTIONS-GO-HERE + + <note important> + Note that GRUB-legacy (and possibly GRUB4DOS as well) has a limit of 256 characters for /proc/cmdline. + Current syslinux implementations double that value to 512 characters. + So if you're seeing issues like X2Go-TCE hanging at boot when it comes to downloading config files, or certain parameters being ignored, when you specify a lot of and/or long parameters, you can either go ahead and shorten file names and paths (e.g. use "vml" instead of "x2go-tce-vmlinuz" and "<nowiki>http://host/</nowiki>" instead of "<nowiki>http://host.example.com/</nowiki>", or switch to a different bootloader. + + </note> + === Installing GRUB-legacy === * mount /dev/targetpartition to (mountpath) * create a folder ''(mountpath)/boot/grub'' * install grub-legacy into it: -- This mail was generated by DokuWiki at https://wiki.x2go.org/