[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #5968: DriveSetup install problem
- From: "umccullough" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:02:33 -0000
#5968: DriveSetup install problem
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Reporter: oxoocoffee | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/DriveSetup | Version: R1/alpha2
Resolution: | Keywords: Unknown Partition Type
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: x86 | Blocking:
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Comment (by umccullough):
Replying to [comment:6 davidsaunders]:
> While it is nessecary to allow for initializing a disk with-out any
partitions, Drive-Setup should check to see if the device is a SATA, PATA,
or SCSI Hard Disk Drive, and if it is dissable this option.
>
> There are some BIOSes that will not load the root sector of an HDD if
there is not a valid Partition table (I have run into this problem a
couple of times, and have no idea why this is). As such the bug is not in
drive setup per-se though rather it is a common BIOS bootloader bug.
I have run into many of those same BIOS that refuse to boot a USB stick
without a partition table as well - so the conclusion that this should be
disabled only for certain disk types seems a bit weak. It would probably
be better to at least display some kind of warning in all cases where
there is no MBR/partition table and let the user decide what to do.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5968#comment:7>
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