On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi; > > FWIW, I use a very old PC of the type where the processor will not be fixed > by Intel and that still needs support for the traditional BIOS. I also > bought a 3TB HD (they were easier to find that 2T). > > If I leave the disk dedicated to FreeBSD it recognizes the complete 3TB and > will happily use ZFS for everything, however I want to dual boot so after > lots of testing I ended up ignoring 1 TB of HD :(. > > It does happen that there is a really nice boot loader that could have saved > the day but it is very difficult to install standalone: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot > > Just in case someone has the time and inclination to play with it :) > > Pedro. Is the issue due to using MBR partitioning? FreeBSD supports booting from a GPT partition from a traditional BIOS; you don't need EFI. Is this machine so old that its BIOS doesn't support booting from GPT?Received on Wed Apr 11 2018 - 14:04:34 UTC
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