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When trying to installing Syslinux on a FAT32 drive formatted using Ridgecrop's Large FAT32 formatting tool [1], the installer will bail due to the minfatsize check, as there is an extra sector being used. This fix addresses that. [1] http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm -------------- next part --------------

Hi Ady, On 2016.02.25 02:08, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > There is an "extra" sector, in comparison to... what exactly? Sorry if I wasn't clear. I think I implied that the Large FAT32 fat size had an extra sector compared to minfatsize, when of course I meant the opposite (the Large FAT32 has one less sector than the minfatsize computed by the unpatched code, hence the check fails). The additional sector I was talking about is from the (unpatched) minfatsize variable computed in libfat_open() when it is compared to the fatsi...

> Hi Ady, > > On 2016.02.25 02:08, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > There is an "extra" sector, in comparison to... what exactly? > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. I think I implied that the Large FAT32 fat size > had an extra sector compared to minfatsize, when of course I meant the > opposite (the Large FAT32 has one less sector than the minfatsize > computed by the unpatched code, hence the check fails). The additional > sector I was talking about is from the (unpatched) minfatsize variable > computed in libfat_open() when it is c...