ntfs-3g has dropped boot record in debian testing

[johnyc]

Hello there. I noticed ntfs-3g removed boot record. No more bootable NTFS in modern Linux.

https://sourceforge.net/p/ntfs-3g/ntfs- ... 6bf7f0d44/

What is "The license for using the boot loader which used to be inserted by mkntfs
is unclear"?

I have used these commands to create an NTFS USB bootable:
parted /dev/sdb -s mklabel msdos mkpart primary ntfs 0% 100% set 1 boot on
mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sdb1
dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb

Maybe compiling ms-sys will work. Or compile mkntfs with old boot loader.

[LE_746F6D617A7A69]

What is "The license for using the boot loader which used to be inserted by mkntfs
is unclear"?

I think this is because the bootloader code used in previous versions was just a binary dump from bootable NTFS drive - and therefore it formally belongs to Microshit ...

But anyway, lack of the bootloader code does not prevent mounting NTFS partitions in RW mode - so this problem is rather hardly related to Debian.