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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:11:20 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIOS booting from disks > 2TB
Message-ID:  <3847C9EE-ABE1-4C7D-AA24-318116B0BE8E@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <E1D09BFA-B9E5-4291-B01B-B9CC8B21FF91@sarenet.es>
References:  <17A2AC72-AD70-480A-9BAC-9CC8EAFD572F@we.lc.ehu.es> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411191024540.55133@wonkity.com> <FF60956B-BF1F-4A1A-840E-489C549304EF@sarenet.es> <546DA321.8050403@jrv.org> <E1D09BFA-B9E5-4291-B01B-B9CC8B21FF91@sarenet.es>

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On Nov 20, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Borja Marcos wrote:

> However, maybe HP has assumed that everyone will use it in =
"intelligent" mode and they haven't implemented the BIOS
> code for it correctly, for example missing the BIOS extensions.
>=20
> So, can we assume that it's not a problem with the FreeBSD boot chain, =
but definitely a poorly implemented BIOS?

Replying to myself, a friend tried the same configuration with a MBR =
partition table and he says it worked.

I'll try that this evening and report the results.






Borja.




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