Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755746Ab0G0Il7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:41:59 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42618 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905Ab0G0Il5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:41:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4C4E9BC0.6060805@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:36 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Yuhong Bao , 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 References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> <4C4BF3C2.1020009@kernel.org> <4C4C87EF.5080605@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4C4C87EF.5080605@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 25 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/