Bug 143693 - Failure of "probe_partition_for_geom"
Summary: Failure of "probe_partition_for_geom"
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138419
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-24 10:45 UTC by Peter Dettmann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:07:47 UTC
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anaconda installation failure report (726.92 KB, text/plain)
2004-12-24 10:58 UTC, Peter Dettmann 		no flags Details
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Description Peter Dettmann 2004-12-24 10:45:22 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Attempting to overwrite Redhat 9 with Fedora (core3) on Pentium 4
machine the process failed with the report of :

Assertion (heads<256) at dsk_dos C:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

As advised the fail data was copied ok to a floppy as a text file for
submission to bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/



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


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:
Comment 1 Peter Dettmann 2004-12-24 10:58:13 UTC 
Created attachment 109105 [details]
anaconda installation failure report
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-12-24 15:45:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:47 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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