On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:23 -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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.
John or Marcel can correct me, but I don't think that this is an issue. The bootstrap is located in the pmbr in sector 0 and the GPT headers and tables are in sectors 1 - 34. The bootstrap code knows how to read the GPT tables and can deal with > 2 tb lba's. So, as long as you can successfully load the bootstrap code from sector 0, all *should* be good. robert. > -- Brook -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
