Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:46:48 -0800 From: Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions Message-ID: <f383264b1001270946h44e76e30te34963abca872a05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey > > I was under the impression that everyone and their dog is using GPT > partitioning in FreeBSD these days, including for boot drives and that > I was just being unlucky with my current NAS motherboard (Intel > D945GCLF2) having supposedly shaky support for GPT boot. But right now > I am having an email exchange with Supermicro support (whom I > contacted since I am pondering their X7SPA-H board for a new system), > who are telling me that booting off GPT requires UEFI BIOS, which is > supposedly a very new thing and that for example NONE of their current > motherboards have support for this. > > Am I misunderstanding something or is the Supermicro support tech > misguided? > > I'm booting servers with SuperMicro X8STi-F motherboards just fine using pmbr + GPT + ZFS. Matt
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