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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