From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>,
jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4E9BC0.6060805@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4C87EF.5080605@zytor.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-24 9:58 support for drives larger than 2TiB Tejun Heo
2010-07-24 12:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-24 12:36 ` Alex Buell
2010-07-24 13:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-07-24 21:15 ` Alex Buell
2010-07-24 18:40 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-07-24 21:38 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-07-24 23:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-25 7:49 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25 2:25 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-07-25 8:01 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25 8:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-25 8:20 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-27 8:41 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-07-25 8:26 ` Alex Buell
2010-07-25 18:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-24 18:48 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-08-19 13:12 ` Mark Lord
2010-08-23 7:40 ` Yuhong Bao
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