You are asking about a Sabertooth Z87, but according to a moderator of the FreeBSD forums, the Sabertooth Z77 can boot in legacy, non-UEFI mode. See https://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=228402&postcount=5
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:32 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm shopping around for new server hardware. Unless someone has a > reason to think of something else, I'm planing on a i7-4770K. The more > interesting question is what motherboard to get. > > I have my eye on the Asus Sabertooth Z87, but I see that it talks of > uefi. What I do not yet see, is whether the system can boot in a non- > uefi mode or not. Given that the motherboard is at least a little OS > agnostic, I have some hope that it will work. > > But I don't know, and in general I think it might be worth talking of > strategies for motherboard selection given the size of the marketplace. > I wonder if this might make a new section > > Thoughts? > > --STeve Andre'
