Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:05:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-user@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r217390 - user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall/partedit Message-ID: <4D30743A.2000303@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20110114082146.00000247@unknown> References: <201101140531.p0E5VpGe076058@svn.freebsd.org> <20110114082146.00000247@unknown>
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On 01/14/2011 01:21, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:31:51 +0000 (UTC) > Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> Add a guided partitioning wizard as a replacement for sysinstall's >> "Auto Defaults" button. On x86, this uses GPT by default for new >> disks. > I don't know how many people dual boot but Windows 7 can't boot from GPT > from a non-EFI BIOS so it might make sense to default to using the MBR > scheme. What do the pc-bsd guys do? PC-BSD can dual boot windows and FreeBSD and it has supported GPT for years. I'm sure that knowledge is codified inside of pc-sysinstall. Warner
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