Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Stephen Borrill
<netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> Have I missed some context here? It is not complex to boot a BIOS-based
> machine from a GPT disk. That's what gpt biosboot is for. I've been using
> even on NetBSD 5 on a 4TB hardware RAID array (backported the changes from
> newer NetBSD to -5).

Yeah, you probably did.

I don't think anyone thinks the functionality doesn't exist.

My concern was that it was hard for me, as a new person to "large"
disks on NetBSD, to understand where to start.

There is conflicting information, or a complete lack of it depending
on where you look.

Michael's reply was exactly what I needed, and as far as I can tell,
that particular information doesn't exist anywhere else in "guide"
form (but please correct me if I'm wrong).

Again, this is in the context of a new person asking "where do I start".

When I searched on NetBSD and large disks, I came up with a page
talking about 137GB as a "large" disk:

https://www.netbsd.org/about/features.html

I can't find anywhere in the guide docs that discuss GPT or UEFI. It's
all over the place if I search but it's generally a little old. The
GPT stuff I found didn't point out that you don't have to manually
create a wedge anymore for instance.

Andy