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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en-gb] (Win98; I) 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...
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.