From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 16:45:39 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 09C1B106566B; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan.naumov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com (mail-yw0-f194.google.com [209.85.211.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE21B8FC13; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so2399957ywh.14 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:45:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=4ylXmzQtKvCtjOic3arwQsi5yaq6oKM5lwBEaOQWa6s=; b=YKPAoEnu++QiW4fZGPlqnkKYQTB8vdKac7tA/Zqeghbp/AbzKO84+ngzbTNC8OpzLB yKZj8wX0r7z1eXnauXrRW7AG8kYa9EUCyq+f+ZaNCIwiM2El9iLQnIA8ED6Z09B9bwKs 7rNsFKXdDZEmRELerbl6sVLew2CLn/Zy3wsmQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=AMUp6aNuHz92mR4+SlHP4dNOUQM6dhb8rC8h9igCrHEKlacjwDH4SPc4eXxJniwM1f iDqzP7xH1Cae23tVMyJ4n6/YBv+x1JQoqQ+zNXrUuUKkwSGYSDW4lvI1uEnGWeSporo+ 4eo1HKwU6WxKGiIA5xNRhSuUloezgNzknhUhQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.93.10 with SMTP id v10mr831527anl.185.1264610736650; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:45:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:45:36 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dan Naumov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: 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: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:45:39 -0000 Hey I was under the impression that everyone and their dog is using GPT partitioning in FreeBSD these days, including for boot drives and that I was just being unlucky with my current NAS motherboard (Intel D945GCLF2) having supposedly shaky support for GPT boot. But right now I am having an email exchange with Supermicro support (whom I contacted since I am pondering their X7SPA-H board for a new system), 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. Am I misunderstanding something or is the Supermicro support tech misguided? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov