Didn't get answer

[Andrius]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Farris" <fedora at andrewfarris.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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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.