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
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