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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:13:25 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        "Pokala, Ravi" <rpokala@panasas.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BIOS booting from disks > 2TB
Message-ID:  <C6FBE6D1-0EE9-4C18-8BAD-C1D1F5426A24@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com>
References:  <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com>

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On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Pokala, Ravi wrote:

> Hi Borja,
> 
> I'd like to clarify something important - you don't need to boot using
> UEFI to use GPT for partitioning. You *do* need to use GPT to have
> partitions larger than 2^32 sectors (2TiB for drives w/ 512B sectors, or
> 16TiB for drives w/ 4KB sectors).

I know :) Something went wrong, though. I will repeat paying extra attention
to all the steps and report back.




Thanks!





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