This "bug" must be limited to FAT16 partitions only. ReactOS installs fine on an existing FAT32 partition that I use for 2 windows NT-based installs among other things. My question is why use FAT16 when FAT32 is available (other than save some space by using a smaller FAT)? Bug 1888 is re...

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Z98 wrote:Though I would like to know the reasoning of the person who voted no.

I was figuring that vote must have come from the developer who would get the brunt of the work

Why LBA? Why what LBA? Are you asking why I was using LBA, or why it might be relevent to the defect? I was using LBA simply because someone delivered the computer I was working on in that state, and I didn't bother to look at the BIOS until all the tests I documented in the bug report were complet...

FIRST reactos should reach to stable for x86 then let developers think about porting. Perhaps, but then there's a risk associated with making the ports an afterthought. Design decisions that target a single architecture may be critically different from design decisions that account for all target p...

Please note open source partition tools like parted. They all work with non standard partitions. Yes they complain about the miss alignment. But they work. Some of the closed source tools completely fail. This is not a defect of Reactos as such its a defect of the closed source tools. In my case, p...

ReactOS developers should get on the ball and support EFI. The reason: ReactOS competes directly with Microsoft, and Microsoft has decided to drop the ball on EFI for the foreseeable future. Vista doesn't support EFI, and it may never support EFI. This would create an opportunity for ReactOS to have...

Intel Macs don't use the BIOS, they use EFI. Porting ReactOS would be quite a bit of work. Plus, i don't see the point yet. I don't believe ReactOS will have to know about EFI, for the same reason people can run XP on Macs. Boot Camp probably emulates the PC BIOS, so I would expect ROS to run witho...

It is ROS that distrusts the BIOS, and that is what is causing the compatibility breakdown. We know this because GNU Parted does not complain when fdisk creates the partition table, thus the table matches the BIOS. When ROS creates the partition table, it apparently ignores the BIOS (at least BIOSes...

Bug report 1888 filed.

I created a partition table using fdisk from Knoppix, the first partition being an active Fat32, 1GB in size. I also formatted it using mkfs.msdos. The ROS install routine complains that the partition table is bad, but it allows me to continue the installation. It finds the partition okay, and even ...