From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 18:12:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40146106568F; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mattjreimer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com (mail-yw0-f194.google.com [209.85.211.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6DD8FC2B; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so2487309ywh.14 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:12:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZMMR1+hIyePw22sBR8zsayvsssvZAPSOTwkS2BA9PjM=; b=ggY/6srxTVlo2nf244W6xQ07y0Ogtrjhtt2cQdKQ336h2SlPoPHMkBAiVaOt3sz52o tnHJ78Q/M+1u6DqCeIbWWzlludxuzvec5eTJPr389NbRcmerZWp1IT4ehsKls1EwI+RA FnY3AIM8FL5HOxvFCkSbFBz/ksAd8RUh05dSQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=jlMBd5LIFX5xxllpBLITjnc4lwU8D5XC6gL9j8o8KBBTZ++TzxzQWrEylLDQVmfYxw 1kQkMsqTC326/6yY1cBNwFUEFpmgCViOZovqL7B+XAU1v3WRnKZRQ6iU2Mxnh+MBOihH GgBY0lhxUPEPvfaDo/gWGcgy6q5+VIIdZCJ8c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.252.1 with SMTP id z1mr11279072ybh.263.1264614408855; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:46:48 -0800 Message-ID: From: Matt Reimer To: Dan Naumov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:12:01 -0000 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Dan Naumov 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