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Bug 140399 - Installer of Fedora Core 3 crashes on dual-system machine
Summary: Installer of Fedora Core 3 crashes on dual-system machine
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 138419
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-22 19:22 UTC by Eran Arad
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:07:13 UTC
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Description Eran Arad 2004-11-22 19:22:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Upgrading from Fedora 2 to Fedora 3 on a dual-system
machine (Fedora 2 + Windows XP).
Hardware: IBM T41p (Laptop)
Errors printout:
Starting graphical installation
Bug
Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
96
Bug
Assertion (sectors<=63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
96
install exit abnormally

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot from the install CD
2.Go through the menus till error messages are reported
3.
    

Actual Results:  installer crashes and aborts

Expected Results:  The installer should have continued and update the
system

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-11-22 20:01:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138419 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:13 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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