From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 16:52:00 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 8033C1065679 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6703D8FC08 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:52:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.89]) by qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id agdN1d00F1vN32cABgqfzx; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:50:39 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id agt11d00S3S48mS8igt2NE; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:02 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C9BB51E3033; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:51:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:51:58 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dan Naumov Message-ID: <20100127165158.GA84643@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 16:52:00 -0000 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:45:36PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > 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? For what it's worth, I've never encountered any production x86 system that I've worked on (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris) which has used GPT. I don't know who's giving you the impression that "everyone and their dog is using GPT". Why is this feature a deal-breaker for you? Why are you giving it so much attention? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |