[syslinux] Support for 4kb disks

Frediano Ziglio frediano.ziglio at citrix.com
Mon Jul 16 03:11:28 PDT 2012


Hi,
  I'm trying to get syslinux (extlinux actually) work with 4kb disks.

I got a bios with 4kb support but seems that extlinux does not work at
all. In extlinux/main.c SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT are constants to
512 bytes and also there are a lot of checks in different places (like
in syslinux_check_bootsect).

Currently I'm trying it to work using GPT and an ext3 partition.

Anybody is working on similar issue or has some advice?

Is there a way to emulate 4kb bios using any virtual environment?

Regards
  Frediano





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