Bruce Cran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600 > Josh Paetzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can > > boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you > > may still have issues. > That's why we have the Protective MBR that allows a 'legacy' BIOS > to boot from GPT. I'm not sure if you can boot past the 2TB point > with it though.
although why anyone would need a root partition > 2TB escapes me :) If they did, they could always make a small /boot partition near the beginning of the disk; BIOS will surely not need to read anything that's not on /boot. Another possible downside: if you want to multi-boot, the other OS may also need to understand both GPT and PMBR. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
