Bug 140399

Summary: Installer of Fedora Core 3 crashes on dual-system machine
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eran Arad <eran>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Eran Arad 2004-11-22 19:22:56 UTC
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Description of problem:
Upgrading from Fedora 2 to Fedora 3 on a dual-system
machine (Fedora 2 + Windows XP).
Hardware: IBM T41p (Laptop)
Errors printout:
Starting graphical installation
Bug
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
96
Bug
Assertion (sectors<=63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
96
install exit abnormally

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot from the install CD
2.Go through the menus till error messages are reported
3.
    

Actual Results:  installer crashes and aborts

Expected Results:  The installer should have continued and update the
system

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-22 20:01:03 UTC

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

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:13 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.