Guys, forget about 4K sectors. The problem is starting USB attached drive. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:59:22AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> If I want to see just the GPT header, which while only ~92 bytes, by spec >>> it gets its own sector, there's far less superfluous information using a bs >>> of 512 bytes than 4096 bytes. >> >> True, although the drive has to read 4096 bytes no matter how much you >> ask for. > > OK. > > In any case, these drives are floating around, and with at least one > company's firmware (of unknown affected models) it causes a hang when trying > to boot Windows. If the CSM-BIOS method is used to install Linux, I'd expect > that to hang as well when such a drive is attached. I think it's reasonable > to expect more strange behaviors as a result of these drives. > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
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