[syslinux] Does 4K sector size fully support?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Feb 9 10:02:33 PST 2016


On 02/08/16 15:23, Ady via Syslinux wrote:
> 
> Peter, do you mean "BIOS" in the broader sense, including UEFI firmware 
> and syslinux.efi (as the OP is asking about)?

Yes.

> Do you mean that *syslinux.efi* does not support (yet) "4k" devices?
> 
> Incidentally...
> Quote from http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46700#comment22 :
> Well, there is apparently some bug (or at least incorrect assumption) 
> on GRUB side. Pity, it is the first known case of BIOS supporting 4Kn 
> disks.

It ought to, but again, testing is hard.

	-hpa




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