I tried uploading an attachment with the source code (about 120k) but the 
mailing list thought it was too big and rejected it. I'm not willing to host 
code snippets like this on my web site, so was wondering if someone else is 
willing to do it?  I'll try uploading the message again with a link instead of 
an attachment if someone else hosts the link. Thanks > I would.  It's in 
assembly rather than C, though.> > I'll extrapolate the relevant parts into a 
small file and upload them in the next few > days.> >
> Hi Bret,
>
>> I also have a USB disk set up with GPT instead of MBR with some
>> DOS-compatible partitions (FAT12/16/32) and others as non-DOS compatible
>> (NTFS, exFAT, etc.).  I also use this for testing my USB drivers to make
>> sure drive letters get assigned when needed to the DOS-compatible
>> partitions.
>
> Interesting! Would you be willing to donate the used algorithm in
> some (maybe C language) form which could be called for example by
>
> https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/kernel/initdisk.c
>
> I think as long as the kernel knows the LBA ranges where
> GPT FAT partitions are, a lot of everyday use cases would
> already be covered. Not sure how to boot from GPT then,
> but outside the kernel, only a few DOS components would
> care about raw partitioning data, so adding GPT support
> to the kernel would be really useful :-)
>
> Thanks! Regards, Eric

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