Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:27:54 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions Message-ID: <4B60CBFA.4050601@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <201001271627.37955.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com> <201001271627.37955.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote: > GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to use 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 tech is > familiar with that case. I thought I heard that some folks had added GPT > support to grub as well. However, this won't boot disks larger than 2TiB, right? At least not without BIOS support...
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