On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Speaking from complete ignorance... do significant numbers of people > still use MBR for non-obsolete platforms/machines? > > Regards, > My laptop is the ~10 years old Dell Inspiron B130. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure why you put "obsolete" in quotation marks...? I have a > machine from ~5 years ago that has no problem with GPT. I certainly > understand that we should strive to support old hardware and such *as > long as it makes sense effort-wise*, but perhaps the Beginner's Guide is > not the place to do that? (Beginners are perhaps likely to have > reasonably up-to-date hardware, etc. etc.) > > Regards, > Where is your data for that assumption? :p My first foray into ArchLinux was installing it to said laptop ^^ so I at least was a beginner with fairly obsolete hardware. In any event, I decided to keep the Windows (XP) partition -- no point in tossing a working OS, and I need it for a program or two that runs on XP but not WINE. So I *had* to use MBR, as XP does not support GPT. And most likely, so will anyone who wishes to dual-boot a computer with Win7 preinstalled (which usually defaults to BIOS+MBR I believe), unless you want to have a lot of fun switching it manually to UEFI+GPT, or reinstalling. MBR -- Eli Schwartz
