Partitions support in usetup

[Aleksey Bragin]

	Hi,
I researched my partition problem (in my hardware setup, I have an  
IDE harddisk, which has 3 primary partitions, and I don't want to use  
the first partittion), and sharing my findings.

So far, kernel and drivers have all necessary support and the problem  
is in usetup directly. Right now, it stores information about  
partition tables in a linked list of PARTENTRY structures, and  
displays ONLY the information about the first out of 4 possible  
partititions in that entry.

I checked with Windows 2003 installation CD, it showed me all my  
partitions as they are, without limiting me anyhow. And certainly it  
allows installation on any of those partitions.

Anyone volunteers to fix this problem properly?


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

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Aleksey Bragin schrieb:
>   	Hi,
>  I researched my partition problem ...
>     
Hi Aleksey,

I see You also have trouble now with partitions.

Please see Bugreport #2122,  closed as "invalid"
=> Install ReactOS on other drive than C: doesn't work


I hope now someone will fix it  ... ?  ...  ;-)


Thanks,
Peter Krawies

[James Tabor]

Hi,
At one time we had Linux partition types in the headers.... We also
supported the Extended partition, now since the kernel rewrite that
was lost. We need to recognize Lilo and Grub in the master boot record
and new M$ partition types if any~....

Thanks,
James


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org> wrote:
>          Hi,
>  I researched my partition problem (in my hardware setup, I have an
>  IDE harddisk, which has 3 primary partitions, and I don't want to use
>  the first partittion), and sharing my findings.
>
>  So far, kernel and drivers have all necessary support and the problem
>  is in usetup directly. Right now, it stores information about
>  partition tables in a linked list of PARTENTRY structures, and
>  displays ONLY the information about the first out of 4 possible
>  partititions in that entry.
>
>  I checked with Windows 2003 installation CD, it showed me all my
>  partitions as they are, without limiting me anyhow. And certainly it
>  allows installation on any of those partitions.
>
>  Anyone volunteers to fix this problem properly?
>
>
>  WBR,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
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