booting off GPT partitions

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.net
Wed Jan 27 16:56:46 UTC 2010


According to Dan Naumov:
> who are telling me that booting off GPT requires UEFI BIOS, which is
> supposedly a very new thing and that for example NONE of their current
> motherboards have support for this.

The Dell T3500 I just configured was announced in March 2009 IIRC and it is booting off GPT just fine.  Didn't do anything special for that.  Then again, I do not see non GPT support as a deal breaker (even for ZFS).

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