From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4C4E9BC0.6060805@kernel.org> References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> <4C4BF3C2.1020009@kernel.org> <4C4C87EF.5080605@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42618 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905Ab0G0Il5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:41:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C4C87EF.5080605@zytor.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yuhong Bao , jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org Hello, On 07/25/2010 08:52 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > If you can set up the disk with GPT then just set up a bootable > partition beyond the 2 TiB mark and install Syslinux 4 on it. (Note: > there is a bug in current versions of gdisk: attribute 2 is the legacy > BIOS bootable attribute, but the author got the bit order wrong and so > you have to set "attribute 61". parted doesn't support the legacy BIOS > bootable attribute yet.) > > If you don't want tomodify the contents of the disk then it can still be > tested, but I don't have a ready-made test for you. The disk doesn't contain any data. I'll try it with several different motherboards and report back. Thanks. -- tejun