Bug 154629

Description of problem:
I'm installing Fedora Core 3 onto my dads laptop. It origanaly had XP Pro 
(NTFS) with two other partitions on it,(Also NTFS) on the one 60GB HardDrive.
I deleted one of them to make room for FC3. I started the setup up and came up 
with 27 "Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed." errors.

So, it went on like that for a coupple of times and got realy annoing!

I read something on here about this and it didn't help! And my mum had a try.
Nothing.
And when I had another try, i did it with "noprobe". There was a Linux Swap 
partition configured for 13GB.
So I deleted that and made 6GB for FC3, and 2GB for the Swap.
And when I tried Saving the configuration, it through a hissy-fit at me with 
this error: Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could 
not allocate partitions

So I tried again to see if it would make the partition. No.

So... I continued without the swap. Made XP the defult boot, No Firewall, USA 
English, Sydney Australia Location, Root Password: ****** (Taken out for 
security reasons) Custom packages for Personal PC, Began install, Got CD's #1, 
2 and 3

Then the bug came up: "Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed."
so I quit and came here for support

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

How reproducible:
Quite reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1.NTFS with Windows XP Pro
2.Partition for Fedora Core 3, 10GB
3.Start the setup
  
Actual results:
Massive errors. Failed Install result of loosing data

Expected results:
Errors reporting: "Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed."

Additional info:
None given