On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:09:57 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> PS I checked and the gentoo installation guide says that gpt without >> uefi prevents dual booting windows. > > So the answer to the question of why are you using a 1980s partition > table is that you want to use a 1990s operating system on it? ;-) > > When you said a new install, I assumed it was a newer computer, but if > you don't have UEFI and want Windows you are apparently stuck with MBR.
It does have UEFI and perhaps I should have learned how to use it. I understand that while gpt is easy to use uefi takes some effort to learn. I don't use windows but the dell hardware support is much better if you have windows available to dual boot into. allan
