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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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