Non-UEFI limited to 2TB disk?

Sonic sonic at comkal.net
Sat Feb 27 03:12:19 UTC 2016


Hi Karl,

>I just got a second hand desktop, went to put Ubuntu on it, and noticed
>in the BIOS that if I disable UEFI, the boot disk is limited to 2TB.
>
>Why is that? It's not a problem for this PC, I'm just curious.

32bit compatibility ?

Check to see if the MB has an updated BIOS you can load,
I came across something similar a few years ago, cant remember
the brand but updating the BIOS fixed the problem.

It was below my could care at the time otherwise I would
have answered my own curiosity.

Cheers
Ian Manners





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