> > If you're starting fresh, isn't it simpler to use a GPT partition > > table if you want to go past that limit? > > > > IF your computer supports GPT, that's certainly an option. > However, I've yet to find anything "simpler" about GPT setups. > Whatever GPT was supposed to make better, I think they missed. > > (to be fair: I understand the OpenBSD MBR boot process very well, and > I can fix just about anything that goes wrong with it. I have NOT > figured out all of GPT booting all that well -- I can make it work, > (more accurately: I can let the OpenBSD devs make it work) but I > can't exactly tell you what is going on under the hood. I have got > multibooting to work with GPT, and if I ever figure out all of how > THAT worked, it might be a better way of doing multibooting than > the usual MBR solutions.) > > I've never regretted setting up a MBR boot system on an "either will > do" machine. I have regretted setting up a GPT system on a machine > that became unreliable, and thus had to be replaced, and I spent too > long trying to find a new used system that was also GPT capable.
Oops; fair enough; I forgot about booting. -- James
