On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > 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...
You won't be able to boot from a partition more than 2TiB in, but you should still be able to boot as long as you boot from the front part of the disk. -- Brook
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