Non-UEFI limited to 2TB disk?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:07:31 -0500, Rashkae wrote:
>BIOS and MBR are both limited to max size of 2.19 TB.

"[snip]
The organization of the partition table in the MBR limits the maximum
addressable storage space of a 512-sector disk to 3.99 TiB (232 × 512
+232 × 512 bytes).[2] Therefore, the MBR-based partitioning scheme is
in the process of being superseded by the GUID Partition Table (GPT)
scheme in new computers. A GPT can coexist with an MBR in order to
provide some limited form of backward compatibility for older systems.
[snip]
Since partitioning information is stored in the MBR partition table
using a beginning block address and a length, it may in theory be
possible to define partitions in such a way that the allocated space
for a disk with 512-byte sectors gives a total size approaching 4 TiB,
if all but one partition are located below the 2 TiB limit and the last
one is assigned as starting at or close to block 232−1 and specify the
size as up to 232−1, thereby defining a partition which requires 33
rather than 32 bits for the sector address to be accessed. However, in
practice, only certain LBA-48 enabled operating systems, including
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Windows 7[20] that use 64-bit sector addresses
internally actually support this.
[snip]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record