[syslinux] Status of support for secotr sizes >512b

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/01/2015 03:11 AM, Andreas Heinlein via Syslinux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> can someone give me a short summary on the status of support for sector
> sizes >512bytes in SYSLINUX?
> 
> The installer obviously still doesn't support it, at least it complains
> about "unsupported sector size" when used on a 4k-sector disk. I read
> somewhere that this is only a problem of the installer, and that
> SYSLINUX itself would work if it got installed "by other tools".
> Unfortunately, I found no hint as to what other tools could be used for
> this.
> 

There aren't any other tools at the moment for BIOS, due to the lack of
an implementation which can actually test.  It should work on (U)EFI
since those systems don't require any special tools to install Syslinux.

	-hpa