RE: Install Fails w/Non-Partitioned Disk

[John Bigbooté <bigboote turbonet com>]

I encountered the same problem with my AS200.  My solution was to purchase
an external drive bay for the VMS disk and power it down whenever I boot
Linux.  Not elegant, but it works.

> I've discovered after much trial and error, that a Redhat (5.2 or 6.0)
> install fails if I attempt to install it on a system that has at least
> one disk in it that doesn't have a PC-style partition table on it.
>
> Specifically, I have an AS200/233 and a Multia.  Both have at least one
> disk that has VMS on it, and hence, those disks don't contain a PC-style
> partition table.  When the RH installation process sees this, it goes
> apes**t, then aborts with a "signal 11 trapped".  If I pull these disks
> out so that they can't be seen, the installation goes just fine.  I
> suspect that the install process is seeing "garbage" from the sector
> that's supposed to contain a valid MBR, and it goes up in smoke trying to
> act as if it's valid.
>
> Obviously, this is a problem.  I've noticed also that once Linux is
> installed, it doesn't matter if the other disks are there or not.  It
> simply reports a bad magic for them (as you would expect).
>
> Anybody have a solution for this?  It's a genuine pain in the neck,
> especially since for my AS200 system, I have to open it up and remove
> the SCSI cable to the VMS drive to install Linux.
>
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