From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:36:44 -0800 Message-ID: <4B96E99C.7010005@zytor.com> References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <1268031640.4389.11.camel@mulgrave.site> <4B94ACE8.4060400@zytor.com> <87f94c371003091446h62e50257qf884b278c69cfbfa@mail.gmail.com> <4B96E25B.7050200@kernel.org> <3E0C3AE547FA504DA5E89EA5A24AC85803E2BD80@wdscexbe01.sc.wdc.com> <4B96E71A.9070701@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44272 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755340Ab0CJAh1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:37:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B96E71A.9070701@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Daniel Taylor , Greg Freemyer , James Bottomley , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord , tytso@mit.edu, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , irtiger@gmail.com, Matthew Wilcox , aschnell@suse.de, knikanth@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de, mkp@mkp.net On 03/09/2010 04:26 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> I will run some experiments to see if any of the systems on my desk can boot >> Linux from a GPT. > > I'm not sure about grub although I strongly suspect recent version of > it should work but AFAICS lilo should definitely work as it doesn't > care how the disk is logically organized at all. > In the case of Syslinux, you have to install gptmbr.bin, but otherwise it works unmodified (Syslinux itself doesn't care about the partition table at all.) Note: the official standard for GPT booting on BIOS is still evolving, so I might change gptmbr to match the new standard. -hpa