Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:41:36 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB |
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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
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