Hi,

Thanks for working on that, it was long time anybody is touching here (in
spite of it is very important part, as I described);

Please share your work in form of patch in Jira, as attachment, and I will
look at it;

You are right in that there is a problem with ROS organizing the patch
reception and/ or adoption.

And a question:

Does your code only install on the extended partition? Haven't you looked
at that kernel part (ntoskrnl) that loads the OS, or maybe did something
there?

Regards,
-M

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:51 PM, stack exchange <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 05.04.2015 um 10:36 schrieb Minas Abrahamyan:
>
>> 2 This feature is extreamely useful for any Windows user-- especially for
>> ones with busy all primary partitions: 2 backup partitions, one C: and one
>> just anything other, Linux or OsX - and you very need extended partition to
>> keep Reactos
>>
>> 3 This feature is extreamely needed for just any real-life (==real
>> hardware) Reactos tester and developer: see p.2 Plus starting from extended
>> partition will allow to have multiple copies of reactos installations,
>> which is bread and water for testers.
>> The fact this feature is absent just shows where real-life usage by
>> testers of Ros is: just nowhere.
>>
>
> I implemented this functionallity, so the installer can now create one or
> more logical partitions and can also install it there. There are two issues
> though:
>
> 1. When multiple logical drives exist and they are deleted the installer
> crashes. This is IMO just a minor problem, because you can still install,
> yu just have to think ahead of what you want. I will look into this later.
> 2. This is IMO the more important issue. I verified with a GParted ISO the
> partitions and they are corrupted. At first I thought I did something
> wrong, but after working on this for several weeks now I'm not so convinced
> anymore. When I dump the partition table with my code, it looks exactly as
> the dump that it would generate when I create the same layout with gparted,
> so it should work. So my assumption is that the implementation in
> NtDeviceIoControlFile(IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT) may be the cause. On the
> other hand, when I create only primary partitions (which the existing code
> can do) then gparted doesn't report any errors, so it may only be the case
> when dealing with logical partitions.
>
> The question is now, should I upload the current code as a patch as it is
> right now, with these known issues, or should I try to fix it completely
> before I upload it?
>
> If I should upload it, I wonder how long it usually takes until it is
> commited to the repository, because I submitted a patch in this areay a
> month ago, which still has not made it to SVN. Or when/how do you get write
> access to SVN?
>
>
>
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