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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
