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Bug 134514

Summary:	Disk Geometry detection fails -> install failure
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Panu-Kristian Poiksalo <panze>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	abruno, laroche, nobody+pnasrat, sopwith
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Description Panu-Kristian Poiksalo 2004-10-04 09:06:25 UTC

Description of problem:

When running installer, assertion failure:
"Assertion (heads<256) at disk_dos.c:472 in function 
probe_partition_for_geom() failed"
This happens after selecting keyboard layout.

After that /dev/hda partitioning fails(?) and installer shuts down. 

Red Hat 9, in the same situation, reports in plaintext that partition 
table is incoherent, possibly resulting from misdetection of CHS of 
disk; safe to ignore but may cause boot loader problems.

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Additional info:
Disk: ST38420A 3.05, 8 gigabytes at motherboard primary ide master.
Motherboard: msi k7tpro2 ver 1
Processor: AMD duron 750 mhz

Only disk in this IDE. Secondary IDE is connected to CDROM.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-04 12:46:04 UTC

This will be fixed with the newer parted in test3.

Comment 3 Alex Bruno 2004-11-05 16:31:52 UTC

Hit this on a dual-boot install. Partition table to follow.

Comment 4 Alex Bruno 2004-11-05 16:37:18 UTC

Error messages generated by parted are:

Assertion (heads <256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S ==A) at disk_dos.c: 495 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

fdisk reads the partition table just fine.

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-05 16:39:07 UTC

Alex -- dual boot install of _what_?

Comment 6 Alex Bruno 2004-11-05 16:45:15 UTC

Windows XP Home

Comment 7 Elliot Lee 2004-11-05 16:48:51 UTC

Sorry, this is installing FC3 final onto a system that already has
WinXP installed. Alex should be providing the 'fdisk -l' output shortly.

Comment 8 Alex Bruno 2004-11-05 17:22:55 UTC

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device   Boot    Start     End    Blocks    ID   System
/dev/hda1  *        1     2550     20482843  7    HPFS/NTFS

Comment 9 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-23 04:39:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***