BIOS booting from disks > 2TB

[Freddie Cash]

On Apr 14, 2016 8:18 PM, "Adonis Peralta" <donileo at icloud.com> wrote:
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> I am getting the same issue. Essentially FreeBSD 10.3 is failing to boot
from a Raid partition > 2TB. Installation goes fine but boot fails. As soon
as setup the array below 2TB installation and boot up works fine. I will
also say that once setup as a 4TB array Debian is also failing to boot. Im
wondering whats going on. Im doing a fresh install with a guided gpt
partition scheme.

MBR only supports booting from partitions under 2 TB in size. It's a known
issue with MBR partitions; ever since 500 GB drives were introduced and
used in RAID5 arrays.

Either create a separate boot partition that's under 2 TB in size (pretty
much all hardware RAID controllers support that).

Or, switch to using GPT. It's one of the main reasons GPT was created.