Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:49 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions Message-ID: <20100128022349.GB46919@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <4B60CBFA.4050601@andric.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com> <201001271627.37955.jhb@freebsd.org> <4B60CBFA.4050601@andric.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote: >> GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to us= e EFI >> to boot a GPT-labelled disk. However, FreeBSD has its own BIOS-based >> bootstrap that can handle GPT-labelled disks. I doubt the SuperMicro te= ch is >> familiar with that case. I thought I heard that some folks had added GPT >> support to grub as well. >=20 > However, this won't boot disks larger than 2TiB, right? At least not > without BIOS support... You won't be able to boot from a partition more than 2TiB in, but you should still be able to boot as long as you boot from the front part of the disk. -- Brook --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLYPU1XY6L6fI4GtQRAov9AJ0b6IZwb4rqIb/TbfssEoV/djwpwACePrWF g9Z6zw9wMhIZ3zsgm/e6oRI= =3k/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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