booting off GPT partitions
Brooks Davis
brooks at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 28 02:24:48 UTC 2010
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote:
>> GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to use EFI
>> to boot a GPT-labelled disk. However, FreeBSD has its own BIOS-based
>> bootstrap that can handle GPT-labelled disks. I doubt the SuperMicro tech is
>> familiar with that case. I thought I heard that some folks had added GPT
>> support to grub as well.
>
> However, this won't boot disks larger than 2TiB, right? At least not
> without BIOS support...
You won't be able to boot from a partition more than 2TiB in, but you
should still be able to boot as long as you boot from the front part of
the disk.
-- Brook
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