[arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

[Brendan Long]

On 04/05/2011 03:24 AM, cantabile wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 03:56 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
>> 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/
> That will soon be one year old. The *current* installer is here:
> http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ That's what everyone has been
> talking about.
Why are these not listed on the download page?