BIOS booting from disks > 2TB

Borja Marcos borjam at sarenet.es
Wed Nov 19 07:20:34 UTC 2014


On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Pokala, Ravi wrote:

> Hi Borja,
> 
> I'd like to clarify something important - you don't need to boot using
> UEFI to use GPT for partitioning. You *do* need to use GPT to have
> partitions larger than 2^32 sectors (2TiB for drives w/ 512B sectors, or
> 16TiB for drives w/ 4KB sectors).

I know :) Something went wrong, though. I will repeat paying extra attention
to all the steps and report back.




Thanks!




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