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Bug 139178 - Anaconda spews diagnostics about parted on some disks
Summary: Anaconda spews diagnostics about parted on some disks
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138419
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-13 18:32 UTC by Alan Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:06:59 UTC
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Description Alan Cox 2004-11-13 18:32:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

Some BIOSes had problems with 256 heads being reported by drives.
Therefore many have a strap that changes the LBA geometry mode to
report 255 heads and do the maths on that basis. Enabling this causes
Anaconda to spew assert warnings all over the place. It seems parted
is being overly paranoid and doesn't know this specific corner case
and that upsets anaconda.

How reproducible:
Use a disk set to 255 heads

Actual results:
A lot of spewed diagnostics

Expected results:
A quiet install
Comment 1 Edwin Chan 2004-11-14 11:04:22 UTC 
Bug 138419 looks like the same issue as described above
Comment 2 Alan Cox 2004-11-14 12:19:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:06:59 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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