New subject: [ros-diffs] [fireball] 40430: - Make it possible toassign drive letters to all partitions, not only to the first partition of a primary partition table. - MakeAssignDriveLetters in partlist.c to actually assign driveletters to all partitions

9 Apr 2009

      It's a stoneage "bug", which was present from the very beginning of  
ReactOS's installer (usetup) - it read, recognized and could be  
installed only on the first primary partition. Now, after my today's  
commits it recognizes and could be installed to any primary  
partition. Extended partitions logic was not changed, was not tested  
and hopefully didn't regress (if it was existing at all).
However, there is still a bug preventing booting ReactOS from non- 
first partition, probably due to incorrect freeldr.ini. Everyone is  
welcome to have a look and try to fix it.
Also, very important, don't use create/delete partition functionality  
- it's good only to create or delete only one primary partition. If  
you use it with multiple primary partitions, it's gonna mess up  
everything. Again, patches are welcome.
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
On Apr 9, 2009, at 10:59 PM, fireball@svn.reactos.org wrote:
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Author: fireball
Date: Thu Apr  9 22:59:28 2009
New Revision: 40430
URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=40430&view=rev
Log:

Make it possible to assign drive letters to all partitions, not

only to the first partition of a primary partition table.

Make AssignDriveLetters in partlist.c to actually assign drive

letters to all partitions found (the list corresponds to how  
Windows 2003 install CD assign driver letters, but more  
investigation would not hurt).

Make CheckActiveBootPartition actually search for partition with

a boot flag, instead of hardcoding it to partition 0 of disk 0.

Fix SetMountedDeviceValues to take multiple partitions in a

partition table into account.

Fix Select Partition, Format Partition, Check File System, Delete

Partition interface page to take partition number into account.

IMPORTANT: Create/Delete partitions must not be used to

repartition the harddrive! They can only be used to create/delete  
an initial primary partition on a clean harddisk.
Modified:
    trunk/reactos/base/setup/usetup/interface/usetup.c
    trunk/reactos/base/setup/usetup/partlist.c
    trunk/reactos/base/setup/usetup/partlist.h