Bug 236513

Summary: bootloader install on unknown platform wipes entire hard drive.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component: bootyAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
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Description David Woodhouse 2007-04-15 19:29:21 UTC 
After an install on PS3, booty set up mkofboot to reformat the entire /dev/sda
drive as HFS. This is a little suboptimal, since it wiped away all the
partitions it'd just installed to.

Better behaviour on an unknown platform would be to do what we currently do for
Pegasos -- just leave a copy of yaboot in /boot/etc/yaboot and pray.
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2007-04-15 19:29:22 UTC 
Created attachment 152654 [details]
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