From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 28 02:24:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802F41065679; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [69.66.77.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B518FC1B; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0S2Nt9X046961; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0S2Nnsr046960; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:49 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Dimitry Andric Message-ID: <20100128022349.GB46919@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <201001271627.37955.jhb@freebsd.org> <4B60CBFA.4050601@andric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B60CBFA.4050601@andric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:55 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dan Naumov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:48 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote: >> GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to us= e EFI >> to boot a GPT-labelled disk. However, FreeBSD has its own BIOS-based >> bootstrap that can handle GPT-labelled disks. I doubt the SuperMicro te= ch is >> familiar with that case. I thought I heard that some folks had added GPT >> support to grub as well. >=20 > However, this won't boot disks larger than 2TiB, right? At least not > without BIOS support... You won't be able to boot from a partition more than 2TiB in, but you should still be able to boot as long as you boot from the front part of the disk. -- Brook --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLYPU1XY6L6fI4GtQRAov9AJ0b6IZwb4rqIb/TbfssEoV/djwpwACePrWF g9Z6zw9wMhIZ3zsgm/e6oRI= =3k/J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--