31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
7:30 a.m.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:47:22 +0100 (BST), "CK Raju"
<ckraju68(a)yahoo.co.in> said:
But is the process of recognising other partitions
stable ? Can ReactOS be installed in extended
partitions ? Does it recognise extended partitions now
? These are the questions that will be eliminated with
adoption of a cross-installer.
It did break the partition table I had the 2 times I
have tried on real
hardware.
The two times, I had Ubuntu installed in logical partitions.
Each times, it see my 10Gb as 4Gb, and give a warning it does not
understand correctly
my partition table.
First time, it did seems to see some unused space (there was probably
none in reality) and
I let it installed there, stopping just before installing the boot
loader (I wanted to use
grub to start it). But when I tried to reboot, computer was unable to
boot, not even go to
the BIOS. Reinitializing CMOS or reflashing BIOS did not help. Finally
discover that
unplugging the HD fixed the BIOS. Probably a BIOS bug, expecting a
correct MBR and partition
table.
Next time (about 1 week ago), I had made a primary partition for it, and
still have Linux
on logical one. But it seems to have break the partition table once
again (not sure how
I convinced myself of that however, I think because I was not able to
search for
/boot/grub/menu.lst from grub on hd0).
I was given on a link in IRC about an unfinished patch on
hyperheterodyne, or superheterodyne...
that was about the partition manager. Was 1 or 2 years old however.
I read it a bit, patch and code for usetup?, but not good enough yet to
really understand.
So I consider the installer very dangerous right now.
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