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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 01.09.2023, 17:32

> Are there any plans to incorporate this into the official Kernel?

I have not the faintest idea what the official plans are.

> I did not
> find a hint of this in the Github Kernel repo, but guess you modified
> initdisk.c to scan for partitions on GPT.
 exactly.

>
> What is your strategy regarding enumerating the drive letters? Old MBR
> style partitions first and GPT last? There seem to be different ways to do
> the enumeration,

GPT disks last, although this might be a SYS configurable option.

>and I am wondering what would be the "right" way to do it.


> To stay compatible with old DOS versions, GPT last would be the most
> obvious I think. But that may clash with the way Windows enumerated the
> drives.
probably the booted disk should have C: ( or A:), then MBR disks, then GPT.

however I don't see any major trouble ahead in this as the machine has to be booted in an uncommon way, through USB or GRUB.

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