[syslinux] Support for 4kb disks

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jul 18 18:59:53 PDT 2012


On 07/17/2012 01:37 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>
> It's a physical machine with a beta firmware on it. I wrote a small
> program to read/write two sectors and I can confirm that each sector is
> 4kb.
>

Support for non-512-byte logical sectors is sparse since such support in 
actual systems is scant to nonexistent.  Most of the pieces are there 
but as you have noticed there are bits still missing.

	-hpa

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