From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: * parted exception: Bug: Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. * parted exception: Bug: Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:495 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. The installer produces lots of these bugs during the whole configuration before the installation begins. If you keep ignoring (or canceling) them, you eventually end up with an invitation to iussue a bug (as I'm doing now) and exiting to text console. Needless to say the installation doesn't even start. I'm trying to install on slave HD within a 3 discs system, configured these way hda1 10 GB - Windows XP hda2 30 GB - VFat32 hdb1 1 GB - Linux swap hdb2 19 GB - Linux ext3 Hdd1 40 GB - Vfat32 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot your PC with FD3 disk 1 in your Cdrom reader 2. Follow all the preliminary steps (like choosing language and configuring your network. 3. See how it crashes Actual Results: The installations didn't even start. Expected Results: The installation should have started Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.