From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:53:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FF88E8.2000501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1301221138470.5355@oretfbsg>
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On 22.01.2013 20:39, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
>
> Quoting Andrey Borzenkov, who wrote the following on Tue, 22 Jan 2013:
>
>> В Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:04:19 -0800 (PST)
>> Seth Goldberg <seth.goldberg@oracle.com> пишет:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Why is this limited to OpenFirmware only? Can you generate a
>>> patch that
>>> supports 4KN disks on ALL platforms?
>>>
>>
>> It already supports 4K sector internally and queries disk sector size
>> for SCSI, ATA and EFI (at least). BIOS is always emulating 512 sector.
>
> That is not true. True 4k native drives (on i386-pc) will not boot
> with GRUB 2 due to issues in grub-setup (I have a proposal I'll send in
> a bit to fix that).
>
The parts to query sector size on BIOS are also in. But none of my
BIOSes were able to even show a 4K-sector drive in its boot menu.
> --S
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-23 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 17:44 [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM
2013-01-22 19:04 ` Seth Goldberg
2013-01-22 19:34 ` Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM
2013-01-22 19:35 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-01-22 19:39 ` Seth Goldberg
2013-01-23 6:53 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2013-01-23 7:17 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-01-28 17:18 ` Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM
2013-01-30 8:37 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-01-30 19:21 ` Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM
2013-02-19 9:03 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 2:04 ` Seth Goldberg
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