Bug 138430

Summary:	Fedora Core 3 prompts Assertion at disk_dos.c during the very first stage of install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Edwin Chan <packager>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	nobody+pnasrat, simrat.khokhar
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Description Edwin Chan 2004-11-09 07:53:42 UTC

Description of problem:

When installing Fedora Core 3, I am unable to perform any actions 
with the installer, the installer just keep prompting:

Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

install exited abnormally.

After going pass the language selection screen.



The system has 2 IDE harddisks and they have the following partition 
information:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *       257       260     32130   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             1       256   2056288+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3           261      7272  56323890   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          7273     20023 102422407+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1      1274  10233373+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2          1275      1339    522112+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb3          1340      5036  29696152+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb4          5037     30401 203744362+  83  Linux




How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put in the Fedora Core 3 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive
2. Reboot the system.
3. Select the language and then click Next

  
Actual results:
Assertion, install exited abnormally.

Expected results:
Perform installation/upgrade.

Comment 1 VnPenguin 2004-11-09 08:13:12 UTC

I have the same error when doing fresh installation. When I click on
"Ignore" the installation exited. When I click on "Cancel" the
installation continues but exited later after selecting packages.

On the same hdd, I can install without any problem FC1, FC2, Slackware
10.0 and SuSE 9.1.

Any solutions ?

Comment 2 Edwin Chan 2004-11-09 08:27:13 UTC

The system motherboard is Asus P4P800 Deluxe, hard disks are Hitachi 
IDE 250GB(HDS722516VLAT80) and IDE 160GB(HDS722516VLAT80), using 
onboard IDE controller:

ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: HDS722516VLAT80, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HDS722525VLAT80, ATA DISK drive

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-09 17:59:01 UTC

Can you try the update image at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/fc3-part-upd.img and see if that helps?

(Instructions for using an update disk are available at
http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/updatedisks.html)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***

Comment 4 Simrat 2005-04-09 17:37:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
 Description of problem:
 When installing Fedora Core 3, I am unable to perform any actions 
 with the installer, the installer just keep prompting:
1) Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function 
 probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
2) Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function 
 probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
 install exited abnormally.
 After going pass the language selection screen.
 The system has 1 IDE harddisk and have 5 dos partitions

 On my Harddisk (samsung make 40GB) following information is printed:
    LBA  78-242-976
Now which figure represents cylinder, head and sector, and how can i resolve 
this problem, please someone tell me. 
(My email id "simrat.khokhar")

 Actual results:
 Assertion, install exited abnormally.

 Expected results:
 Perform installation/upgrade.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:06:51 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.