From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: During install of fc3test2 on a Compaq Deskpro EN (Celeron 850), parted throws this message: Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:472 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. This occurs several times, eventually hanging the machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot fc3test2 CD. 2. Attempt to partition disk, either automagically or manually. 3. Watch this assertion thrown several times. 4. Watch the box lock up after a few of these. Actual Results: Install locks up. Expected Results: Install should have proceeded normally. Additional info: There are several different CHS translations available in this BIOS, including "Off", "Bit Shift", "LBA assisted", and "Manual". None of the above work.
This should be fixed in rawhide with the newer version of parted present there.
I have basically the same White Box Pent' 133 (showing kids how one can use a PC found in the garbage) 2 x 2GB drives, one was FC2 the other some DOS/Win95 disk My error is sector count <= 63 At least my box does not lock up :) -pete
I also have this same bug, but now with fedora core 3 TEST 3. So it is there yet and should be resolved before final release. The HD I am using has a FAT32 partition used by Windows 98.
During installation of FC3-test-i386-DVD : many times : "Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c 482 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed". and "Assertion (sectors <= 63) at disk_dos.c 487 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed". PC is running Fedora 2 only. hda is WDC WD 600AB-22BVA0 (Geom 116301/16/63 hdb is Maxtor 4D040H2 (Geom 79408/16/63
The same fault as all of the above, no need repeating it all. fedora core 3 current release 1/1/2005.
Same problem: Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed But I make it just pass the partion, when it's about to start install it gives me another error, then the install cancels out. I can't find the cause. I'm trying to install to a Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB hard drive. My computer's a P3 733MHz, and I'm trying to dual-boot with Windows XP Pro. This is my first time actually trying to install Linux, and I've made Fedora my choice of distro. So I really hope to get it working. According to the history, this seems to be a releatively old bug, dating back to Fedora Core 2? I'm trying to install Core 3 Final.
Marking as a duplicate of a bug which was filed later, but has a whole lot more comments/workarounds/etc. on it. Still trying to get this problem figured out. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***