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
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