Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:10:18 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions Message-ID: <20100127171017.GA40068@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001270845j772d5524tbc2cbd53e70890a7@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:45:36PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > 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? The compatability MBR should be sufficent to let a non-GPT aware BIOS boot from GPT. Once you've loaded code from the boot partition, the BIOS doesn't need to know anything about the partitions. -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLYHN5XY6L6fI4GtQRAk6uAKCDz8HRDrS/Cjibj8Pqg7/OziXrFQCdGKAr gRQvLCMrggm9C1qKuyi727E= =ZIxv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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