Hi all, I have installed debian-potato on my alpha using disks-alpha version 2.2.15-2000-06-07. The system uses two SCSI-HDD on a build-in Adaptec and a third on an external symbios-logic controller. I partitoned the first drive ( the one to boot from ) leaving enough room for swriteboot to write the SRM bootloader ( yes, the machine is SRM ). The other two drives were partitioned using *all* of their space for data partitiones. After the initial base-install finished, the reboot unveiled, that drives two and three did not have any vaild disklabels on them. I confirmed this ( believing in my own stupidity ;-) by repeating the base install process.
For the third try, I also left the first cylinder unused on drive 2 and 3, and now everything went OK. the drives were perfectly mounted upon reboot. This makes me believe, that the install-routines swriteboots *all* drives. Here are my questions: 1. is my assumption correct ? 2. is this intentional ? 3. Is it known/fixed ? 4. Is all this new to everybody and I should go ahead and fix it ( if no one volunteers, I should be able to do it - but I ask first ;-) Sincerely Thomas Weyergraf -- Thomas Weyergraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.
