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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #700444 +++

A customer upgraded a machine from RHEL 5.3 (?) to RHEL5.6 and on boot a ddf1 signature was detected on the device (/dev/sda) containing the /boot filesystem.  As a result, his system would not boot, but he worked around the boot problem with "nodmraid" on the cmdline.  Apparently the ddf1 signature was from a previous windows install, and was not properly wiped when RHEL was installed.

Once booted, he attempted to use "dmraid -E" to erase the unwanted ddf1 signature, but received the following error:
dmraid -v -E -r /dev/sda
Do you really want to erase "ddf1" ondisk metadata on /dev/sda ? [y/n] :y
ERROR: ddf1: seeking device "/dev/sda" to 40959999737856
ERROR: writing metadata to /dev/sda, offset 79999999488 sectors, size 0 bytes returned 0
ERROR: erasing ondisk metadata on /dev/sda

I will upload an strace of "dmraid -f ddf1 -r /dev/sda" as well as other relevant data from this customer system.  I am not sure if I can get the exact signature from the disk but will upload if I can.

--- Additional comment from zkabelac on 2011-08-30 08:44:01 EDT ---

Fixes patch posted on dm-devel list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-August/msg00121.html

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