Well, If you want 3tb as your boot drive, you need a mobo that supports efi.
Here's the explanation: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/%5Btitle-raw%5D_0 Jimmy On Feb 17, 2011 5:29 PM, "Nexus Droid" <anonydr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the requirements for booting Linux using the > 3TB hard drives that are now coming out. I understand that they can be > used as secondary (non-boot) drives without any problems. From what > I've read online, it appears that you need a motherboard with EFI > rather than plain BIOS. Is this an absolute requirement, with no > bootloader workaround for any non-compliant motherboards? > > On a side note, are there any non-Intel branded motherboards that come > with EFI? I'm intrigued by the PDF manual I downloaded of MSI's new > AMD Fusion mini-ITX board E350IA-E45: > > http://www.msi.com/product/mb/E350IA-E45.html#/?div=Manual > > On page 22 of the multi-lingual manual is the following "BIOS" option: > > Built-in EFI Shell > Use this item to enter the EFI Shell. > > Moreover there is a screenshot on page 21 confirming this. The option > can be found in the "Save & Exit" tab, beneath the section heading > "Boot Override" and above possibly another option "UEFI: USB Flash > Disk 1.11" . > > The BIOS update comes in at a fairly large 4MB (after unzipping). > Opening the BIOS file in Emacs and doing a search for EFI shows > human-readable text like "EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL" or > "EFI_VOLUME_CORRUPTED". > > Strangely, the EFI support isn't advertised in the above MSI web page. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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