From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UCaP1-0002Yc-G1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:46:23 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCaOx-0002X6-6H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:46:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCaOv-0007Uj-GB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:46:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::22d]:63886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCaOv-0007UM-9t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:46:17 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f173.google.com with SMTP id i1so939634eaa.32 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:46:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=96Fk2B2u2i2bgrlV0Ou2DsF0XVLJqRRrkehZOSL3c00=; b=fx2BViqfJHLI7BoaUGvBBMcpDjkROfF4Maq10X6ZLxzbEg0lev+Q8CBDLRQ3yhVrgw cS9ZV3WDiLRaUy3gK65VseWW5kdrEua5WonRVDxHOtzIr0t4++xSHFUUz5RnsoKlGTbc FKlwSmnFVyPb6lPeV0dt0Zp9pjTkqDtvNebdtPjjdySqZxxoXDQr2rMy8JWnYc+wvidx wgOF5KxhfkHQ0t3XdGLGJ6KjVmgjxom0NXFbGWrkp0+meK+8NyduC/nQu+88eZVlBRCX nXOJ6GYeeQJsrZeBywmY9vBNdCyUjoLnFde5GbZIL4w5S/DFS92pA6X5CiqwAn5OQSwn rIXA== X-Received: by 10.14.183.198 with SMTP id q46mr28029377eem.1.1362422775975; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet ([217.193.148.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 44sm33508206eek.5.2013.03.04.10.46.14 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:46:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5134EBEA.5030400@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:46:02 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: USB3 3TB HDD boot References: <1360696755.21718.53.camel@pracovna> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig65C3BF91586F99439504C8BE" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c01::22d X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:46:21 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig65C3BF91586F99439504C8BE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04.03.2013 17:27, Bob Lemar wrote: > Thank you for your replies. >=20 >=20 > Yes, it is definitely BIOS problems as it doesn't allow to boot from > external drive directly (via BIOS boot order settings). It doesn't > show this drive at boot menu even after soft reboot. So BIOS > doesn't provide access to GRUB like to any other drives or USB > flashes. >=20 > And I suppose to think that it is not a bug, it is a feature. And > feature of external drive, not a BIOS. Wrong. Not supporting 4K disks is simply a lack of support, nothing else. As for manufacturers producing such drives reasons are several and partially in an attempt to mitigate msdos partition limitation. > - BIOS behavior is correct (it power up USB); It has also to propose the disk to boot from and if chosen, boot from it.= > - Ales, you were absolutely right with floppy for booting CD trick > example. While MB, HDD firmwares and bootloader have predictable and > correct behavior some users would like to have bootloader feature > (GRUB command) that wake up external HDDs and re-detect drives. BIOS accessing disks is already wakeup enough.> I did: (1) clone linux to external drive; (2) correct fstab at. You can access the disk in GRUB using own GRUB modules but you can't chainload on such drives as it would require BIOS support. --------------enig65C3BF91586F99439504C8BE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlE06/MACgkQNak7dOguQglxYAD+Pea0Eq0Iaytv8nXYZSpSdZdp WEUKLI4FQDY4tae0zVABAIMAkdvqr9jVCQrQei746bcYPKvejT6Yrsae99h1qYax =Kgqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig65C3BF91586F99439504C8BE--