Asertion(heads>0) on IBM disk install

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 08:34:52 UTC 2004


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:32:23 -0800, Rick Lim <ricklim at telus.net> wrote:
> I am upgrading a FC2 to FC3 and using a 350 mhz Asus P2B motherboard with an
> IBM IBM-DTLA-305030 disk (30 gig drive).
> 
> When I try to upgrade it looks like the upgrade tries to read the disk
> geometry and then gives an error :
> 
> Assertion(heads>0) at disk_dos.c: 485 in function probe_partion_for_geom()
> failure.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this problem with upgrading ????

This also displayed when I perform fresh install but can be proceed
after I reply "Cancel" don't reply "Igrone" because it would shutdown.

I have tried to install 2 times and got same error displayed.




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