Re: Installing and Using NetBSD on 6 TB Drive

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

devocite%gmail.com@localhost (John Maier) writes:

>It is old enough, that it only supports BIOS drive booting.  Because of 
>this, I can't leverage GPT partitioning/booting and therefore I'm 
>constrained to a maximum of a 2TB NetBSD partition.

There is a BIOS boot block that understands GPT, you should be able to
use it to boot from the 6TB volume.

The only limit is that disk I/O is still done through BIOS. If the BIOS
doesn't support 6TB volumes, you may need to put /boot and the kernel
on a partition at the beginning of the disk.

The alternative is to create two RAID volumes, one small enough to hold
the root partition (or maybe the complete NetBSD system).


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