Hello, I didn't get answer to my question. Is it problem unclear or unknown? In installation process of Fedora Core 3 test 2 for AMD64 I got such bug message "Bug: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:471 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed." (after keyboard configuration). If I press cancel I can go through other steps, but when I got the same message when it is time to copy packages to disk and installation stops.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:19:26AM +0100, Andrius wrote:
I didn't get answer to my question. Is it problem unclear or unknown? In installation process of Fedora Core 3 test 2 for AMD64 I got such bug message "Bug: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:471 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed." (after keyboard configuration). If I press cancel I can go through other steps, but when I got the same message when it is time to copy packages to disk and installation stops.
Can yo describe your disk setup ?
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:03 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:19:26AM +0100, Andrius wrote:
I didn't get answer to my question. Is it problem unclear or unknown?
In installation process of Fedora Core 3 test 2 for AMD64 I got such bug message "Bug: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:471 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed." (after keyboard configuration). If I press cancel I can go through other steps, but when I got the same message when it is time to copy packages to disk and installation stops.
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Can yo describe your disk setup ?
For background I'll explain mine because I also saw this message on my P4 machine. It only happened when I had used fdisk to modify the partition table after Anaconda was running (via vt2). The message was displayed when Disk Druid configuration, not before (at keyboard conf).
I manually deleted and created new partitions inside an existing extended partition which previously housed FC2 (in rawhide form), using fdisk just prior to Disk Druid in Anaconda. FC2 fdisk had created the previous partitions inside the extended, however Windows XP SP1 had created the extended partition itself. Now the new partitions created with FC3t2 fdisk caused the assertion failure.
I could not proceed with the installation without this error until I removed the fdisk created partitions used manual Disk Druid instead (a reboot was also necessary for geometry to be re-read).
In the below setup, /dev/hdb5 was not deleted in the reformat and reinstall to FC3t2 (which is why it is now displayed out of disk order). The extended partition was left as is during the whole process.
-#-> fdisk /dev/hdb -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 263 2112516 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 264 3657 27262305 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb3 3658 4865 9703260 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb5 3214 3657 3566398+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 * 264 271 64197 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 272 666 3172806 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 667 1074 3277228+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb9 1075 1208 1076323+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb10 1209 3213 16105131 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Apparently, the fdisk and disk druid results varied enough to cause this error.. or perhaps it was due to using fdisk while anaconda may have already checked disk geometry for disk druid? This has not been an issue previously.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Farris" fedora@andrewfarris.com To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:27 AM Subject: Re: Didn't get answer
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:03 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:19:26AM +0100, Andrius wrote:
I didn't get answer to my question. Is it problem unclear or unknown?
In installation process of Fedora Core 3 test 2 for AMD64 I got such bug message "Bug: Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:471 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed." (after keyboard configuration). If I press cancel I can go through other steps, but when I got the same message when it is time to copy packages to disk and installation stops.
--
Can yo describe your disk setup ?
For background I'll explain mine because I also saw this message on my P4 machine. It only happened when I had used fdisk to modify the partition table after Anaconda was running (via vt2). The message was displayed when Disk Druid configuration, not before (at keyboard conf).
I manually deleted and created new partitions inside an existing extended partition which previously housed FC2 (in rawhide form), using fdisk just prior to Disk Druid in Anaconda. FC2 fdisk had created the previous partitions inside the extended, however Windows XP SP1 had created the extended partition itself. Now the new partitions created with FC3t2 fdisk caused the assertion failure.
I could not proceed with the installation without this error until I removed the fdisk created partitions used manual Disk Druid instead (a reboot was also necessary for geometry to be re-read).
In the below setup, /dev/hdb5 was not deleted in the reformat and reinstall to FC3t2 (which is why it is now displayed out of disk order). The extended partition was left as is during the whole process.
-#-> fdisk /dev/hdb -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 263 2112516 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 264 3657 27262305 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb3 3658 4865 9703260 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb5 3214 3657 3566398+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 * 264 271 64197 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 272 666 3172806 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 667 1074 3277228+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb9 1075 1208 1076323+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb10 1209 3213 16105131 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Apparently, the fdisk and disk druid results varied enough to cause this error.. or perhaps it was due to using fdisk while anaconda may have already checked disk geometry for disk druid? This has not been an issue previously.
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I recreated linux partition too and that I installed fc3. And yes that wasn't issue in previous releases, because I can install fc2 and fc1 without problems. My partition table is
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 39 313236 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 * 1403 2932 12289725 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 40 1402 10948297+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 2933 13354 83714715 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 2933 2949 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 2950 11283 66942823+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7 11284 11341 465853+ a9 NetBSD /dev/sda8 11342 12389 8418028+ a9 NetBSD /dev/sda9 12390 12911 4192933+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda10 12912 13354 3558366 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
However I created partition with Partition Manager in Windows, so perhaps it is not that issue about fdisk and disk druid.
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