Bug 189036

Summary:	FC5 Installer doesn't fix x86 disks for use on FC5-PPC
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Cody DeHaan <cody.dehaan>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	triage
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Hardware:	powerpc
OS:	Linux
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Description Cody DeHaan 2006-04-14 23:18:55 UTC

Description of problem:

When using a disk previously used as i386, I put the drive in a PowerPC and
attempted to install FC5. I told it to erase ALL partitions, and it did so, and
installed. However, upon reboot, I got the flashing ? in the folder. As it turns
out, there was no Apple_Boot created.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Use disk previously used on PC, tell FC5 to install on it, and you won't be able
to boot.
  
Actual results:

Bootloader does not show up, probably because OpenFirmware doesn't know how to
boot off of a MS-DOS disk.


Expected results:

Installer should reassign the disk with a Mac-style partition table, especially
since I told it to blask the disk's contents anyways.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-08-21 05:23:34 UTC

User pnasrat's account has been closed

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 02:38:47 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 15:47:33 UTC

This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.