On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 3:13 PM Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/01/2022 15:57, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > So can this be a shortcoming in the BIOS with large drives? > > Yes, it can. > many people encountered this kind of a problem in the past. > 2TB (2^31 bytes) is the common boundary. > > > I had thought that only applies to boot0, not the loader itself. > > loader also uses BIOS calls for disk access.
Would that issue go away with UEFI and its ~100MB partition being in front of the disk? It would still need to be able to read the loader and kernel from anywhere in those 4TB though... Or should I bring back a / UFS partition in the front instead, with /usr and /var on ZFS?
