From: Jack Wang <xjtuwjp@gmail.com>
To: Mahesh Rajashekhara <Mahesh.Rajashekhara@pmcs.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
Kishore Babu Lukka <Kishore.BabuLukka@pmcs.com>,
JBottomley@Parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Tony Ruiz <Tony.Ruiz@pmcs.com>,
Achim Leubner <Achim.Leubner@pmcs.com>, Asha P <Asha.P@pmcs.com>
Subject: Re: Linux boot Support for 4KB sector drives ?
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:14:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D2C412.7090006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D29634.1020600@gmail.com>
On 07/02/2013 10:58 AM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 03:11 PM, Kishore Babu Lukka wrote:
>> Adding Asha also.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mahesh Rajashekhara
>> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 11:41 AM
>> To: JBottomley@Parallels.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: Tony Ruiz; Achim Leubner; Mahesh Rajashekhara; Kishore Babu Lukka
>> Subject: Linux boot Support for 4KB sector drives ?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does any of the Linux OS flavors support booting from the 4K sector
>> (advanced format) drive in legacy BIOS mode (MBR partitioning scheme) ?
>
> That depends on boot loader, not Linux I think.
> Linux has support for 4k sector drive, but if the boot loader
> doesn't, it can't fetch the kernel into memory and load Linux.
>
> Legacy grub makes use of BIOS interrupt service and thus shouldn't
> be able to support 4k sector drive, I don't know the status of grub2.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Mahesh
Hello,
It also depends on HBA BIOS driver, which need to properly handle 4k
sector. Linux kernel do support 4k sector.
Regards,
Jack
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 6:11 Linux boot Support for 4KB sector drives ? Mahesh Rajashekhara
2013-07-02 7:11 ` Kishore Babu Lukka
2013-07-02 8:58 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-02 12:14 ` Jack Wang [this message]
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