On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT
partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see
logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary
partitions.
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the default any time
soon, since most tools don't support it very well yet, and most versions
of Windows won't boot of it (much as I hate holding things back for
worse operating systems, having a default that makes it impossible to
boot Windows seems like a bad idea). Having it available in the
installer would be really nice though. Even just including gdisk and
syslinux on the install disk would make things a lot easier in some
situations.
FYI the installer/live installer already includes gptfdisk (gdisk) and
syslinux.
I don't believe that "lets worry about windows" is a good argument. If a
user is installing arch they should be able to read documentation and
determine which is the best for them MBR or GPT.
