Fedora 3 Install troubles
Edward
edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Fri Dec 31 03:57:59 UTC 2004
Phil Scherzinger wrote:
> Got a new pc, and am trying to install Fedora 3. I get the following message:
>
> assertion (heads > 0) at disk_doc.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed
>
> I am given two options, Ignore, and Cancel.
>
> Message is displayed several times with "heads > 0" changing back and forth to sectors > xx (xx value seems to change). Also the value on "c:485" also changes.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
Happens to a lot of people. It is noted in bugzilla, but the database is
down at the moment.
There's a specific cfdisk line that fixes it but I don't have it here, I
found it last time myself on the net.
Regards,
Ed.
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