This will allow compatibility with modern OSes and
modern disk management utilities.
It will also improve performances by properly aligning
partition start.
And it will let enough room at the begin of the disk
for 3rd party bootloaders.
WARNING: this is not compatible with previous partition
model, and old one will likely not be compatible. You'll
have to erase your whole partition table and start from
scratch.
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.
- Interface the TreeList code and populate it with the list of
discovered disks and partitions. Code is adapted from USETUP.
Also display the names of the disks.
- Display some installation settings summary, before doing the
installation proper.
- Force the user to select a checkbox when (s)he acknowledges that
ReactOS is alpha-quality software and may break on his/her computer
or corrupt his/her data.
- Improve wizard pages transitions and buttons enabling/disabling.
- Press Shift-F10 to start a command-line (as in the 2nd-stage setup
in syssetup.dll).
- Use some explicit UNICODE functions/macros.
Add the TreeList control from Anton Zechner and Sébastien Kirche
from https://github.com/sebkirche/treelist (under GPL-3.0+) as a
*TEMPORARY* solution until a better-suited control for ReactOS is
developed.
- Compilation fixes for the TreeList control.
- 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.
This increases performance for each time the SETUPLIB calls (using NT paths)
Win32 SetupAPI functions which of course only accept Win32 paths.
- Handle also the fact that a NT path to convert may start with
\Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY\..., which can be a symlink to
\Device\HarddiskVolumeN\... on some systems. In that case, the
Win32 path mapping should be done slightly differently.
- Add support for network mapped drives.
- Improve UI usage and wizard transitions (Work In Progress).
- Add interfacing code that display installation status.
- When the user attempts to cancel the installation during file copying,
pause the file copying, and restart it if the user changes it mind and
wants to continue the installation. Otherwise file copying is properly
halted.
- BOOTDATA: Use standard INF signature string, so that they can be
opened successfully using ReactOS' or Windows' setupapi.dll with
the INF_STYLE_WIN4 style.
- SETUPLIB: Use the correct INF_STYLE_* INF styles in SpInfOpenInfFile() calls.
- REACTOS : Switch thread locale to user-specified LocaleId when calling
SetupOpenInfFileW(), so that the correct localized strings are used.
- In PrepareCopyInfFile(), explicitly use AddSectionToCopyQueueCab()
to retrieve the files from the CAB INF.
Otherwise if one continued to use and rely on AddSectionToCopyQueue()
to do this job instead, bad things could happen like, re-enumerating
twice or more (and adding them to the file queue) the same files.
This is because in the new code AddSectionToCopyQueue() can be called
many times to deal with different SIF file sections. The old code then
called AddSectionToCopyQueueCab() in turn, but on the same list...
Now the steps performed are clear, and everything works as intended.
- Simplify the code that computes the full source and destination paths
for the files to be copied and directories to be created, using helper
functions.
- Compute the source file and target location from the TXTSETUP.SIF
entries in a NT-compatible manner.
- Use adequate access flag when opening symbolic links.
- Simplify the prototype of UpdateRegistry() since now both Setup INF
handle and settings lists are inside the USETUP_DATA structure.
This means, call in the correct order the user callback with the correct
parameters (in particular the correct paths for file copy operations),
and check also for the callback returned value to know whether or not to
continue the file operations.
This allows using some of the SetupApi.dll functions when SETUPLIB is
used in the (Win32) GUI 1st-stage installer "REACTOS", while using the
custom implemented NT-aware functions in "USETUP".
- Add support for delete and move/rename operations, which are needed
for implementing ReactOS upgrading support.
- Use cabinet contexts.
- Use standard LIST_ENTRY structures for implementing the lists.
- Move the path-building hack code in SetupCommitFileQueueW() that had
been introduced in r66604 (97bb83f) out of the file-queues code.
- Make the function prototypes compatible with win32's setupapi functions.
- Fix the format of the data passed to the custom notification handler.
- Adjust the file-copy callback to correctly use its arguments (setupapi-compatible).
- Move a great deal of global variables into the USETUP_DATA structure
(the SetupInf, the SetupFileQueue, the generic lists...).
- Place the common setup initialization code into an InitializeSetup()
routine, and the cleanup code into FinishSetup().
- Implement the setup-code part support for the TXTSETUP.SIF setup
source path override variables "SetupSourceDevice" and "SetupSourcePath"
(see CORE-9023); support for them in SETUPLDR will be added later.
- In the 1st-stage GUI setup, display the list of existing discovered
NTOS installations, with its name, installation path and vendor name,
and an associated icon.
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75544
[SETUP:REACTOS] More interfacing of the 1st-stage GUI installer with the setuplib.
- Add a ConvertNtPathToWin32Path() helper function that allows converting
NT paths like: \Device\CdRom0\i386\txtsetup.sif file into a Win32 path
that the Win32 versions of the SetupApi functions (e.g. SetupOpenInfFileW)
can accept.
Note that RtlNtPathNameToDosPathName() cannot be used here because this
function only works for NT paths within the \DosDevices\ (or \??\) NTObj
directory, and not in other directories.
- Use this helper function in the implementation of SetupOpenInfFileExW.
Now the txtsetup.sif function can be loaded by setuplib *when being used*
by the 1st-stage GUI installer!
- Remove deprecated code.
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75668
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75721
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75750
This includes also to remove the created symlinks.
Symlinks deletion is special, as one has to open first the symlink
itself (and not its target), then remove the "SymbolicLinkTarget" value
before really deleting the key. Of course everything must be done under
proper access rights.
Additional changes:
- Change prototype BOOLEAN CmpLinkKeyToHive(...) to NTSTATUS CreateSymLinkKey(...).
- Silence few DPRINTs.
- Document some FIXMEs that I need to inspect later on ReactOS.
- HKEY --> HANDLE.
- It can therefore be also used by the 1st-stage GUI setup.
- Rename some function parameters to clarify what they should be.
Based on:
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75750
Additions:
- Use explicit __cdecl calling convention for variadic functions.
- Fix also the whitespace in consup.h.
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75749
[USETUP] Improve usage of ERROR_TXTSETUP_SECTION and ERROR_CABINET_SECTION error codes, correctly display associated error message, and remove a deprecated string.
- Apart from allowing a UI cache variable that may be used when
displaying GENERIC_LIST_ENTRY-ies, do not store any display strings
associated to these list entries. They should be instead computed only
when initializing a list UI (or a combo-box or list control if the
code is used in Win32 environment).
For this matter a callback is provided to InitGenericListUi() that
does the job of computing the displayed string corresponding to a
given GENERIC_LIST_ENTRY.
- Simplify the calls to InitGenericListUi(), and refactor the
RestoreGenericListUiState() function.
- Use for-loops for iterating over GENERIC_LIST items.
- Adapt the storage data format for lists of settings items.
- The txtsetup.sif INF format specified in LoadSetupInf() should not be
INF_STYLE_WIN4 (to be investigated...).
- Use OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE when initializing object attributes
(no actual reason why to keep case sensitivity there).
- Check the success of a RtlStringCchPrintfW call in EnumerateReactOSEntries().
- Explicitly check for returned STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED from ChkdskPartition()
or FormatPartition(), and display an appropriate error message.
- Remove some left-over comments but also explain why I kept some
commented code (mainly for future reference).
