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Bug 134514 - Disk Geometry detection fails -> install failure
Summary: Disk Geometry detection fails -> install failure
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138419
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-04 09:06 UTC by Panu-Kristian Poiksalo
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-11-23 04:39:53 UTC
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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 ***
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