From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Nov 19 07:20:34 2014
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0F8F3CB
 for <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:20:34 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from cu01176b.smtpx.saremail.com (cu01176b.smtpx.saremail.com
 [195.16.151.151])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (Client did not present a certificate)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9019C97A
 for <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:20:34 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from [172.16.2.2] (izaro.sarenet.es [192.148.167.11])
 by proxypop04.sare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B0C59DF8AC;
 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:13:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: BIOS booting from disks > 2TB
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:13:25 +0100
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <C6FBE6D1-0EE9-4C18-8BAD-C1D1F5426A24@sarenet.es>
References: <D0916F70.124566%rpokala@panasas.com>
To: "Pokala, Ravi" <rpokala@panasas.com>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283)
Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Filesystems <freebsd-fs.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-fs>,
 <mailto:freebsd-fs-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-fs-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs>,
 <mailto:freebsd-fs-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:20:34 -0000


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!