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Don't you need UEFI boot for GPT booting >2 TB drives? That always seemed like the most practical advantage of UEFI+GPT to me.
by zamadatix 2y ago
Don't you need UEFI boot for GPT booting >2 TB drives? That always seemed like the most practical advantage of UEFI+GPT to me.
- userbinator 2y agoTechnically not, as MBR "legacy" boot just loads the first sector (MBR) of the selected boot device into memory and jumps to it, and BIOSes with Int13 Extensions (mid-90s!) already allowed accessing disks with up to 2^64 sectors. There's also "MBR the partitioning scheme", which does have a limit of 2^32 sectors or 2TB, but that's not exactly the same as "MBR the boot method".
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