Bug 141919
| Summary: | graphical installer reports fatal error probe_partition_for_geom() failed | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pierre Kerr <pkerr> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | nobody+pnasrat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:07:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Installing Fedora Core 3, after booting from CD#1, I get as far as the graphical screen asking for language and then see a message: "assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed" then a smiliar one "assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed" with a choice of ignore or quit. Choosing ignore to the first message then brings up the second. Ignore the second and the installer exits. The final screen has: "X server started successfully." "Starting graphical installation..." "Bug" followed buy the two messages that were displayed while in the graphical installation. This computer has two drives. The first is a 20 gig with Windows NT 4.0 and two NTFS partitiions of 7 and 13. The second drive is a 6 gig with a RedHat 9 installtion on it. The computer is a Pentium 266 with 256 meg ram. Thanks in advance Pierre Kerr Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start computer with Fedora install disk #1 in cdrom 2.Answer questions about language and keyboard type Errors appear Actual Results: "assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed" then "assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed" with a choice of ignore or quit. Choosing ignore to the first message then brings up the second. Ignore the second and the installer exits. Expected Results: I believe the next screen might be the partioning questions Additional info: I did a media check before my first attempt. Media was good. This computer has been running RedHat 9 without a problem for many months.