Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:06:45 -0700 schrieb "John T. Wilkinson" <[email protected]>:
> I believe this is accurate. I have used GPT for large raid arrays on > other Linux distros. The prevailing way to deal with GPT is to leave > it out of the installer, configure the OS on a non GPT partition, > then after install to use parted to make the GPT partitions. I > believe to boot to a GPT partition you need EFI or UEFI, booting to > GPT from a regular bios is not well supported, and most motherboards > presently do not have EFI/UEFI except for some enterprise servers. Not quite right as far as I know. It was primarily intended for EFI/UEFI, but now runs with BIOS, too. But first installing a system and then make GPT partitions wouldn't make much sense particularly if you need to install the system onto a partition bigger than 2 TB even if this partition only contains /home. > A good first step that would put Arch beyond other distros from what > I've seen would be support for non-boot GPT partitions in the > installer via parted. There should not only non-boot GPT partitions. It should be possible to be able to building the whole partitioning scheme as GPT. I don't know if it would be possible to mix MBR and GPT partitions anyway. Heiko
