[arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

[Brendan Long]

On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> 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.
I just booted off a USB stick to make sure, and the current installer[1]
doesn't have gdisk (although it does have syslinux, which I didn't realize).

[1] http://www.archlinux.org/download/