Re: gptzfsboot can't boot from 4TB SSD

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 3:13 PM Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 27/01/2022 15:57, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> > So can this be a shortcoming in the BIOS with large drives?
>
> Yes, it can.
> many people encountered this kind of a problem in the past.
> 2TB (2^31 bytes) is the common boundary.
>
> > I had thought that only applies to boot0, not the loader itself.
>
> loader also uses BIOS calls for disk access.

Would that issue go away with UEFI and its ~100MB partition being in
front of the disk? It would still
need to be able to read the loader and kernel from anywhere in those
4TB though...

Or should I bring back a / UFS partition in the front instead, with
/usr and /var on ZFS?