- Use the same keypress 'C' to create either primary or logical partitions.
Their type is automatically determined, whether they are created in
general unpartitioned space, or space within an extended partition.
- Extensively adapt the translations to reflect these changes.
Do not do that yet for extended partitions (containers).
This is possible, because when creating partitions, we do that on
unpartitioned space that is already "tagged" as either being "logical"
or not, and the partition style is inherited from that.
The resulting code is simpler, yet working as it should.
This will also help in the future for supporting other platforms, where
the concept of "primary", "extended" and "logical" partitions do not
exist (basically all platforms except BIOS-based PC-AT).
Unify CREATE_{PRIMARY,EXTENDED,LOGICAL}_PARTITION_PAGE
(i.e. Create{Primary,Extended,Logical}PartitionPage() functions)
into a single CREATE_PARTITION_PAGE (i.e. CreatePartitionPage()).
A lot of code was duplicated there (display, size input, etc.) just
for calling ultimately the Create{Primary,Extended,Logical}Partition()
helper functions.
This will also help in the future for supporting other platforms, where
the concept of "primary", "extended" and "logical" partitions do not
exist (basically all platforms except BIOS-based PC-AT).
This allows to move this choice sooner in the process, thus having all
the user key presses at first, then all the actual installation going
without any key presses needed anymore... (that is, unless you wanted
to install the bootloader on a removable device. Then it will prompt
you there!)
- Additional "cosmetic"/future-proof changes: Rename all instances
of "floppy" in the bootloader install variables to "RemovableDisk"
because it would be great to have this install choice later.
- Layout adjustments in the translated bootloader pages.
- Skip bootloader installation on upgrades. The idea here is that if
we were able to find a ReactOS installation to upgrade, this means
we were able to find a valid bootloader + boot entry.
See also PR #5633.
This logic may be slightly improved in the future to detect whether
the underlying bootloader is FreeLdr and if so, only update its files.
But this is for the future.
- Modify media/vgafonts/28606-8x8.bin Romanian VGA font to display special characters.
- Add global variables for special characters "Char..." for Romanian VGA font.
- Toggle the global variables "Char..." in SetConsoleCodePage function.
CORE-18446
The AsciiChar of the ESCAPE key should be 0x1B instead of zero; however
this is not the case due to the hacked keyboard layout currently being
used. This will be fixed later ...
so that they wrap the needed init steps for formatting/chkdsk'ing.
These helpers now accept a PPARTENTRY, together with the usual
formatting/chkdsk parameters. The helpers now determine the actual
NT path to use, and can perform the init steps on the partition
before performing the actual operation.
In particular, FormatPartition() is now made GPT-compliant. The
partition type retrieved by FileSystemToMBRPartitionType() is now
used as a hint for choosing FAT32 over FAT12/16, and only in the
case of a MBR partition that is *NOT* a recognized OEM partition,
it is used for updating the corresponding partition type. (OEM
partitions must retain their original type.)
The OEM partition types we (and NT) can recognize are specified
e.g. in the Microsoft Open-Specification [MS-DMRP] Appendix B
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dmrp/5f5043a3-9e6d-40cc-a05b-1a4a3617df32
Introduce an IsOEMPartition() macro to help checking for these types
(its name is based on the Is***Partition() macros from ntdddisk.h,
and from a dmdskmgr.dll export of similar name).
The formatter will select it anyway as soon as the partition size
permits it. We make it available internally however so as to "emulate"
FMIFS functionality.
Now rely on the partition filesystem for InstallVBRToPartition() instead
of the unreliable and deprecated partition type.
This PR enables the developers to include the CJK standard fonts into ReactOS by adding them in Folder modules/optional. This feature is for test purpose only. You may not use the fonts illegally.
The embeddable font files are: mingliu.ttc, simsun.ttc, mssong.ttf, msgothic.ttc, msmincho.ttc, gulim.ttc and batang.ttc.
CORE-9619
CORE-12683
Supersedes PR #612.
* [USETUP] Implement the internal MUI routines for text manipulation based on its ID and implement text resource based IDs
USETUP (the 1st stage text mode setup module) bases upon MUI (Multilingual User Interface) sub-component of USETUP which is responsible for the ability into translating the MUI pages (each page having corresponding properties like X, Y coordinates, text flags and text string buffer) in various languages.
The only problem, as of now, is that whenever you want to modify a certain property of a page, such as removing a text from the said page in the screen, you've got to rely on using CONSOLE_* specific functions and calling with hardcoded parameters, namely the coordinates.
This can become a problem as not every localized (translated) MUI page has the same properties for each language and this could lead to various issues. Therefore, assigning each entry with an ID you can remove a text by only giving its ID (and the entry page number) without having the need to specify the coordinates
as the internal MUI routine, MUIGetEntry(), automatically retrieves the entry with respective data fields.
The following commit implements:
- MUIGetEntry()
- MUIClearText()
- MUIClearStyledText()
- MUISetText()
- MUISetStyledText()
- Now the X and Y coordinate members of MUI_ENTRY are of SHORT integer type, for the sake of the general code as most of the coordination values, even the COORD structure itself, has the coordination points as SHORTs and not BYTEs.
The following MUI functions will be used to manipulate text based resources depending on their ID from the corresponding MUI entry.
* [USETUP] Make CONSOLE_ClearTextXY function public so that we can use across other files.
* [USETUP] Implement the IDs for each text MUI entry in locale files.
This mechanism follows the same principle of resource IDs in Win32 applications. Static text is merely a resource that doesn't get changed programmatically for whole of its lifetime whereas dynamic resources can change during the lifetime of the program depending on the algorithm (for example, hide that piece of text and set another one, etc.).
* [USETUP] Remove the "Press ENTER to continue" message prompt when the partition formatting begins.
CORE-16274
SETUPLIB:
=========
- Find the system partition initially when we create the list of
partitions.
- Split the old CheckActiveSystemPartition() helper in two helpers:
FindSupportedSystemPartition() and SetActivePartition(). This allows
simplifying slightly the former one, and allows the user, in an
interactive situation, to decide whether the "supported system
partition" found can actually be used or not.
- Remove the "OriginalSystemPartition" hack in the PARTLIST structure.
- Add a note regarding the SystemPartition member in PARTLIST.
USETUP:
=======
- Use the introduced helpers from above. If the "system" partition we
are going to use, in case we install ReactOS on a fixed disk, is *NOT*
the same as the original one (e.g. because it is detected to be not
supported by ReactOS...), display an informative screen to the user
and let him confirm whether or not he wants to change the partition.
If we install on a fixed disk, try to find a supported system partition
on the system. Otherwise if we install on a removable disk, use the
install partition as the system partition instead.
This allows providing a fix for CORE-16274.
SETUPLIB:
=========
- Remove useless HiddenSectors member in PARTENTRY structure.
- InsertDiskRegion() helper returns a BOOLEAN success.
- CreateInsertBlankRegion() helper sets LogicalPartition.
- Simplify the InitializePartitionEntry() helper so that its PartEntry
parameter is clearly the one that is being initialized (i.e. converted
from a blank region to) an actual partition, and use the helper
CreateInsertBlankRegion(). The calculations for the StartSector and
SectorCount are exactly equivalent with the old version of this
function. Also make it return a BOOLEAN success instead.
+ Add some extra validation checks.
+ Adjust CreatePrimaryPartition(), CreateExtendedPartition() and
CreateLogicalPartition() in this regard.
- Better handling of "RAW"-mounted partitions: treat them as
"Unformatted" only if they are RAW *AND* their PartitionType is one of
those associated with FAT file-system. Otherwise we cannot decide
whether they are indeed unformatted or have an unknown file-system on
them, therefore treat them as the latter.
In this regard, the IsSupportedActivePartition() helper should not
look for FileSystem == RAW but instead only look whether the partition
is Unformatted.
This should help with situations similar to the one described in CORE-16274
where a partition with a genuine file-system but not recognized by
ReactOS (because we currently do not have the EXT2/3/4 filesystem
driver loaded during 1st-stage setup due to commit 5a650f6b) and
therefore mounted as RAW, was thought to be unformatted.
USETUP:
=======
- Use the "global" SystemPartition pointer: this is the "system"
partition we will actually use. It can be different from the actual
one of the computer, for example when we install ReactOS on a
removable disk. This allows also to simplify the code.
- Remove the single-used DestinationDriveLetter variable.
- Remove BuildInstallPaths() helper and use InitDestinationPaths()
directly instead.
- Always mention the disk where the partition being formatted is.
- Cleanup old code comments, add assertions here & there...
Fixes GCC 8 warning:
base/setup/usetup/usetup.c:3407:78: error: '%S' directive writing up to 521 bytes into a region of size 200 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
"Setup is currently unable to check a partition formatted in %S.\n"
^~
base/setup/usetup/usetup.c:3406:9: note: 'sprintf' output between 128 and 649 bytes into a destination of size 260
sprintf(Buffer,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Setup is currently unable to check a partition formatted in %S.\n"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"\n"
~~~~
" \x07 Press ENTER to continue Setup.\n"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
" \x07 Press F3 to quit Setup.",
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PartEntry->FileSystem);
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nowadays more and more people try to install ReactOS from removable
drives (e.g. USB sticks) onto fixed HDDs, or try to install it into
USB sticks too.
Both fixed and removable drives, as well as partitions on these, are
represented in NT using the same device name format:
\Device\HarddiskM\PartitionN ,
with an increasing disk number M. Using this number for building the
corresponding firmware-specific ARC multi(x)disk(y)rdisk(z) path used
by the NT/ROS loader (FreeLdr, ...) is then prone to error since there
may have been removable drives inserted and accounted for in the
calculation of the disk number. These drives must be correctly
subtracted in order to generate the correct ARC path, valid once all
the removable drives have been ejected (which should also be the
situation seen from the BIOS when booting up, except of course if you
boot on a USB stick).
This problem is now solved. Note that it matters only for the disks
that have also been enumerated by the firmware (BIOS; Int 13h). We
don't have to care about the other drives, since the ARC path will be
of a different format and will not use the disk number (instead, the
SCSI coordinates are used).
We also try to enumerate all the disks found in all the possible disk
adapters and controllers enumerated in the Hardware registry tree
(and that are visible by FreeLdr) in order to cover all.
Finally, we detect whether a disk reports as a "super-floppy", i.e.
an unpartitioned disk with a valid VBR. This is indeed how a standard
floppy disk looks like, or how USB sticks are partitioned on Windows.
Such disk is reported has having only one single partition starting at
the beginning of the disk, with partition number == 0, its type being
FAT16 non-bootable.
This allows us to forbid creating any new partitions on such disks.
Note that accessing either \Device\HarddiskN\Partition0 or Partition1
on such a disk returns the same data.
Note also that on the contrary, regular MBR-partitioned disks would
report at least four partitions entries, instead of just one.
The other improvements are:
- Do *NOT* write any MBR on a disk partitioned as "super-floppy".
CORE-13703
- Fix the computed disk identifier, of format: %08x-%08x-%c .
The numbers are respectively the checksum of the first sector, and
the disk signature. The terminating letter is A or X, depending
whether the first sector ends with 0x55AA/0xAA55 or not (see also
commit 5053f1f5).
- Warn if the user attempts to install ReactOS on a disk that is not
visible by the firmware of his computer, because it may not be
bootable.
- Add also some validation ASSERTs and simplify the code here and there.
- The installation partition is called "InstallPartition", while the
global "CurrentPartition" is the disk region currently selected in
the partition UI list, on which prtitioning operations are effectued.
- Extend CheckActiveSystemPartition() to use an optional alternative
disk or partition in case the actual system partition (present in the
first disk) cannot be used, e.g. because we don't support writes on it.
- Find or set the active system partition only once, when we start the
formatting stage. If the system partition is to be created in some
non-partitioned space, we create it.
- A file-system check is always scheduled for both the system and the
installation partitions.
- If the system partition was already formatted (which usually means
that it already existed on the system), don't ask for formatting it.
CORE-13205
- For each partition to be formatted, the file-system menu list is
re-created, in order to display only the FSes that are compatible
with the selected partition, and allow to give the user the choice
to keep the existing file-system only if the selected partition was
already formatted.
- Check whether the user attempts to delete the partition on which
the installation source is present, only if it is not "new" and is
formatted.
- Check first whether the current partition is the system partition,
before displaying the CONFIRM_DELETE_SYSTEM_PARTITION_PAGE.
- Make some partitioning functions not dependent on the selected "CurrentPartition".
- Add some sanity checks.
- Improve some of the "is-partitioned" checks.
Similarly to FMIFS this structure should be private. Instead file-system
names are passed to the helper functions, allowing to use the names
returned by the FS drivers. The names are then internally mapped to the
corresponding FS providers.
In particular this allows to handle the "RAW" file-system and to assign
the 'Unformatted' flag to partitions having this FS.
Finally this helps us refining the checks performed to see whether the
current "active" system partition uses a supported file-system.
- Within the function's body code, check the status values returned by the called functions.
- Change the BuildInstallPaths's function type to NTSTATUS instead of VOID (and check the status of InitDestinationPaths() as well.
By default, we still fallback to FAT if nothing asked, or if there
is an invalid input.
0 is FAT, 1 is BtrFS. This can be grown as soon as we add more IFS.
- Add checks for GPT disks and either fail or ignore the disk,
depending on the operation being executed.
[USETUP][REACTOS] Display the disk style more accurately.
Always perform the partition validity checks when creating new
primary/extended/logical partitions, and also when a new partition
is automatically created when unpartitioned space is selected for
ReactOS installation.
CORE-12246
Simplified implementation of the proposed solution by George Bișoc
and revised by Victor Perevertkin from PR #952.
NOTE: For whatever reason ERROR_INSTALL_BOOTCODE and ERROR_WRITE_BOOT
seem to be redundant with each other. To be investigated...
Most of Linux filesystems have the MBR ID assigned as 0x83 and when the user chooses BTRFS upon partitions page wizard, we're thinking of the partition as having Ext2 filesystem which is wrong and misleading.
- SETUPLIB and USETUP: Convert PARTENTRY::DriveLetter to WCHAR.
- SETUPLIB: Retrieve volume label.
- SETUPLIB and USETUP: Move the partition types (IDs) table from
USETUP to SETUPLIB so that they can share it with the 1st-stage
GUI installer too. Also take the opportunity to update the table
with information from http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
and cross-checked with the list from Paragon Hard-Disk Manager.
- USETUP: Simplify PrintPartitionData().
- Add some code comments.
