On 06/01/2012 03:26 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote:
2012/6/1 Tyler Morgan<tyl...@tradetech.net>:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive
That doesn't mention GPT, which is the problem with drives>2TB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Can OpenBSD already boot from a 4TB drive on an UEFI system?
Best
Martin
OpenBSD doesn't support booting from UEFI/GPT stuff at this point, but
it is as needed as being able to boot from the tail of a 1TB disk when
your bios only supports the first 32G. or 504M. or 128G. or whatever
limit your BIOS has. It isn't needed. Hint: a lot of machines
purchased today still have problems BOOTING beyond 128G, even though the
BIOS reports the entire disk (and this is clearly a BIOS problem, I have
several machines which DO boot fine beyond 128G), and you can use 2TB
disks on those systems Just Fine.
OpenBSD needs to load the boot loader from something the BIOS recognizes
(an MBR/fdisk partition). From there, the OS has to be able to figure
out where the rest of the disk is (disklabel).
Look Ma, no UEFI!
Now, if you want to multiboot four different OSs, and put OpenBSD as the
last 500GB of a 3TB disk, not so pretty.
Nick.
