Thanks for the link. It's unfortunate that among motherboard "manufacturers", only Intel appears to be advertising EFI capability. I just emailed Gigabyte and they confirmed that their boards cannot yet boot greater than 2.2 GB but promised they are looking to add this feature in a future upgrade. But how they can replace the BIOS with EFI firmware I don't know. Their E-350 motherboard is equipped with 2 x 16 Mbit dual BIOS.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jimmy Lim <jimmyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, If you want 3tb as your boot drive, you need a mobo that supports efi. > > Here's the explanation: > > http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/%5Btitle-raw%5D_0 > > Jimmy > > On Feb 17, 2011 5:29 PM, "Nexus Droid" <anonydr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about the requirements for booting Linux using the >> 3TB hard drives that are now coming out. I understand that they can be >> used as secondary (non-boot) drives without any problems. From what >> I've read online, it appears that you need a motherboard with EFI >> rather than plain BIOS. Is this an absolute requirement, with no >> bootloader workaround for any non-compliant motherboards? >> >> On a side note, are there any non-Intel branded motherboards that come >> with EFI? I'm intrigued by the PDF manual I downloaded of MSI's new >> AMD Fusion mini-ITX board E350IA-E45: >> >> http://www.msi.com/product/mb/E350IA-E45.html#/?div=Manual >> >> On page 22 of the multi-lingual manual is the following "BIOS" option: >> >> Built-in EFI Shell >> Use this item to enter the EFI Shell. >> >> Moreover there is a screenshot on page 21 confirming this. The option >> can be found in the "Save & Exit" tab, beneath the section heading >> "Boot Override" and above possibly another option "UEFI: USB Flash >> Disk 1.11" . >> >> The BIOS update comes in at a fairly large 4MB (after unzipping). >> Opening the BIOS file in Emacs and doing a search for EFI shows >> human-readable text like "EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL" or >> "EFI_VOLUME_CORRUPTED". >> >> Strangely, the EFI support isn't advertised in the above MSI web page. >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
