Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:41 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions Message-ID: <20100127165641.GD89897@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com>
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According to Dan Naumov: > 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. The Dell T3500 I just configured was announced in March 2009 IIRC and it is booting off GPT just fine. Didn't do anything special for that. Then again, I do not see non GPT support as a deal breaker (even for ZFS). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In memoriam to Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/
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