Re: [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors

[Seth Goldberg]

Quoting Andrey Borzenkov, who wrote the following on Tue, 22 Jan 2013:

> В Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:04:19 -0800 (PST)
> Seth Goldberg <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >    Why is this limited to OpenFirmware only?  Can you generate a patch that
> > supports 4KN disks on ALL platforms?
>
> It already supports 4K sector internally and queries disk sector size
> for SCSI, ATA and EFI (at least). BIOS is always emulating 512 sector.

  That is not true.  True 4k native drives (on i386-pc) will not boot with 
GRUB 2 due to issues in grub-setup (I have a proposal I'll send in a bit to 
fix that).

 --S