From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Epiphany/1.4.4 Description of problem: This error message appears when the graphical installer starts. The full error message is below: Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at disk_dos.c: 1813 in function add_logical_part_metadata() failed. I have to ignore a lot of these message, > 20, to continue the install process. The install appears to work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installer Additional info: I have used Partition Magic in the past to modify my partition table. My partition table is below: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 756 6072538+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 757 1020 2120580 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 1021 4865 30884962+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1021 3313 18418459+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3314 3379 530145 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 3380 4020 5148801 83 Linux /dev/hda8 4021 4661 5148832+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 4662 4865 1638598+ 83 Linux
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.