Bug 35855

Summary: Disk Druid BSD label incorrect with alphabios
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <jasontwamley>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-04-13 03:27:31 UTC 
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i have a AlphaPC 64lx 600Mhz. I have the latest alphabios and milo. I can use boot floppies to install RH7 from CD.
The disk initially was MSDOS Disklabeled and Disk Druid managed to correctly keep this label. Alphabios requires a MSDOS Disk label and not a BSD 
disklabel (booting from the SRM does require BSD). The first install of RH worked fine.
 A mistake was made upon an later reinstall and fdisk was used to change the disk to a BSD Disklabel. 
Druid will still work and RH& can install: before rebooting the machine I can ls /mnt/sysimage to see the new OS. 
However upon reboot, at the MILO prompt, I get garbage from an ls of the root partition. The automatic decision of
Disk Druid to always force the disk label to a BSD on an AIX system when there are no MSDOS partitions on the disk
is not always correct and should not be forced when one is booting from alphabios.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. get an aix system with alphabios with milo (Ok..RH7 does'nt support milo - but you still need a MSDOS disklabel for alphabios).
2. boot up and start anaconda and just before the format go into a virtual terminal and clean the disk  #dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sda?
3. Install RH7 and reboot..always fails...at the Mil prompt try ls sda? 
4. I think this is because the disk druid popped the wrong disklabel on the SCSI drive.
	

Actual Results:  Dead...

Expected Results:  Booted...
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-13 06:10:13 UTC 
We do not support Milo.  Disk druid behaves correctly in this situation.  Please
see
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/alpha-install-guide/ch-milo.html
for a more detailed explaination.