On 2010-01-28 13:06, Robert Noland wrote:
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.
Ah yes, I see it now. It uses EDD packets with the BIOS int 13 interface, which apparently have a 64-bit LBA. This should support up to 8 ZiB with 512-byte sectors... OTOH, I have no idea how well most BIOSes actually implement this. Since many OSes simply don't support anything over 2^32 sectors, I would not be amazed to find much BIOSes out there that behave the same. Or am I too paranoid now? :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
