Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:44:22 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: bruce@cran.org.uk Cc: mueller6724@bellsouth.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB? Message-ID: <4cf9f156.iRyLYEzYqdNg1mf7%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20101204011741.79353836@core.draftnet> References: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net> <201012031813.11266.josh@tcbug.org> <20101204011741.79353836@core.draftnet>
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Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 > Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > ... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can > > boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you > > may still have issues. > That's why we have the Protective MBR that allows a 'legacy' BIOS > to boot from GPT. I'm not sure if you can boot past the 2TB point > with it though. although why anyone would need a root partition > 2TB escapes me :) If they did, they could always make a small /boot partition near the beginning of the disk; BIOS will surely not need to read anything that's not on /boot. Another possible downside: if you want to multi-boot, the other OS may also need to understand both GPT and PMBR.
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