[PATCH v1] doc: README.distro: Special case with Windows formatted disk

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:39 PM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 1/29/21 10:05 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:28 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 08:27:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:50:39PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>> The case I got into has been achieved by very standard procedures. Hence it's
> >>> kinda default behaviour in some cases and should be handled accordingly. The
> >>> patch proposed here is to cover this in the U-Boot, because real fix has been
> >>> rejected by maintainer (probably I failed to explain that). But this is still
> >>> bug in U-Boot for such cases. And again, Linux has an offset option. I'm fine
> >>> if this can be added to the fat* commands in the U-Boot.
> >>
> >> Sorry, what is the real fix that was rejected again?  Thanks!
> >
> > I probably misspelled the state of the affairs. The direction (*) of
> > how to fix this had been rejected.
> >
> > *) the idea is to fix fat support code to consider nested MBRs.
> >
>
> Hello Andy,
>
> could you, please, provide an image created by Windows but not
> recognized by U-Boot. According to the thread the first 1 MiB should be
> enough to reproduce the problem. Maybe place it on gist.github.io.
>
> This should give us the test case for correcting disk/part_dos.c.

I already shared this, it's still there [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/andy-shev/469aef8dfcd8f5605cb8992cf5958769


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko