[arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF

[cantabile]

On 04/05/2011 08:21 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
> 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?

Well, those are generated automatically and the release engineers don't 
want potentially broken images to appear on the official download page. 
It has been discussed on arch-releng but I don't remember the thread's 
title.

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