Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:13:25 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: "Pokala, Ravi" <rpokala@panasas.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BIOS booting from disks > 2TB Message-ID: <C6FBE6D1-0EE9-4C18-8BAD-C1D1F5426A24@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com> References: <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com>
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On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Pokala, Ravi wrote: > Hi Borja, > > I'd like to clarify something important - you don't need to boot using > UEFI to use GPT for partitioning. You *do* need to use GPT to have > partitions larger than 2^32 sectors (2TiB for drives w/ 512B sectors, or > 16TiB for drives w/ 4KB sectors). I know :) Something went wrong, though. I will repeat paying extra attention to all the steps and report back. Thanks!
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