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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:12:44 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gptzfsboot can't boot from 4TB SSD
Message-ID:  <212cfd90-056f-d294-ae9c-fd2b632ae679@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <YfKkr%2BmC6rMrRlF9@acme.spoerlein.net>
References:  <YfKkr%2BmC6rMrRlF9@acme.spoerlein.net>

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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.


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Andriy Gapon



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