On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:47:22 +0100 (BST), "CK Raju" ckraju68@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.