From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: When installing on a PPC Mac to a drive that has an MSDOS Drive label, the installer neglects to change this when formatting the drive. This causes an unbootable install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Begin install on a drive with an MSDOS drive label. 2. Complete install, and reboot. 3. See flashing folder with ? Actual Results: Could not boot into FC5. Expected Results: Since I completely erased the drive, anaconda should have set the proper disk label. Additional info: This bug is also present in FC6T2
I've a proposed patch I need to test out tomorrow when I'm at a ppc machine.
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We are moving away from disk labels. This should not be an issue anymore.