Andrew Scheller

@ghollingworth I guess this ought to be transferred to the linux repo?

This might be a question better suited for the forums? https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewforum.php?f=143

@peter123123 See #948

I'm not sure if they're relevant to your change here, but see also #548 and #500 and #568

This is obviously a bug that I ought to (attempt to) fix, but how critical is it? Is it only low-priority "this ought to work but it shouldn't", or is...

Thanks to the quirks of the MBR partitioning scheme, after NOOBS has done it's initial first-boot resizing, the MBR itself and the first partition _never_ get modified. It's only files...

...okay, I think I've managed to track down the 'culprit' ;-) As already (partially) mentioned, on a post-initial-boot NOOBS card, there's both an MBR partition table at bytes 1-512 inclusive,...

Yup, and those config options are both boolean (yes/no) and not tristate (yes/no/module) http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA.html So a kernel (re)compilation is unfortunately the only way to turn them on or off. And...

> Perhaps the RiscOS partition table is not necessary if it's not chosen to be installed? _Technically_ the RISC OS partition table isn't necessary if RISC OS isn't chosen to...

According to https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/commit/ff4060743aeaeb942f1884dd6914ea2905d842c3 NOOBS "now does rewrite the MBR", so presumably SD-corruption concerns are now a thing of the past, and theoretically future versions of NOOBS _could_ be modified to...