Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 22:05:50 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: bruce@cran.org.uk, mueller6724@bellsouth.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, josh@tcbug.org Subject: Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB? Message-ID: <AANLkTimi=n65O97z26v1WGu3UHKiPoQJyEg=RfomWVmD@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4cf9f156.iRyLYEzYqdNg1mf7%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4cf8dbdd.7sbsexcxBlJtEO11%mueller6724@bellsouth.net> <201012031813.11266.josh@tcbug.org> <20101204011741.79353836@core.draftnet> <4cf9f156.iRyLYEzYqdNg1mf7%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 4 December 2010 07:44, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 > > Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > > ... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can > > > boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you > > > may still have issues. > > That's why we have the Protective MBR that allows a 'legacy' BIOS > > to boot from GPT. I'm not sure if you can boot past the 2TB point > > with it though. > > although why anyone would need a root partition > 2TB escapes me :) > > If they did, they could always make a small /boot partition near the > beginning of the disk; BIOS will surely not need to read anything > that's not on /boot. > > Another possible downside: if you want to multi-boot, the other OS > may also need to understand both GPT and PMBR. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > maybe is you were using zfs
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