[ros-bugs] [Bug 6495] Boot floppy disk is formatted incorrectly - number of hidden sectors is wrong

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http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6495


Bblaauw <bblaauw at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Bblaauw <bblaauw at gmail.com>  2011-10-29 15:34:19 CET ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Fixed by r54269.
> 

Thanks for fixing this. Your commit message seems to indicate the entire floppy
gets formatted, which could surprise people (if they can find diskettes in the
first place, that is) as they loose current content instead of FreeLDR.sys/ini
being added and a proper bootsector contents in bootsector area (or file
perhaps, if another bootloader detected. But that's feature creep).

Things could get interesting in the case of:
* broken floppy controller
* not being able to find a diskette anymore (where's the BACK button in
USETUP?)
* bad sectors
* write-protect enabled
* non-FAT12 filesystem on floppy (raw disks or ext2 or whatever)
* non-standard geometry (SomeGuy had a FreeLDR disk with geometry a while ago)
* non-standard capacity (1768KB disks?)
* insufficient capacity (say, 360KB floppy with FreeLDR being larger)

but at least you now got a solution for the standard situation, which will do.


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