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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

...raid_mode, subpath, subvol); + opt.raid_mode, subpath, subvol, sector_size); free(dirpath); return rv; diff --git a/libinstaller/syslinux.h b/libinstaller/syslinux.h index 8b86f88..75ed451 100644 --- a/libinstaller/syslinux.h +++ b/libinstaller/syslinux.h @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ const char *syslinux_check_bootsect(const void *bs, int *fs_type); typedef uint64_t sector_t; int syslinux_patch(const sector_t *sectors, int nsectors, int stupid, int raid_mode, - const char *subdir, const char *subvol); + const char *subdir, const char *subvol, + unsigned sector_size); #endif diff --git a/lib...

This set of patches add some support for sector size >512. Currently it fixes extlinux, MBR for GPT and ext partitions. Other code is unaffected. This set of patches has been tested on a read Dell machine running a beta firmware.

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will