svn commit: r217390 - user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall/partedit

[Warner Losh]

On 01/14/2011 01:21, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:31:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at 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