not installing FC3 test 2

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Sep 16 22:43:01 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:13 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> Upon loading CD1 and rebooting install using linux hda=XCYL,HEAD,SECTOR
> to avoid the MBR problem that afflicts us all.
[snip]
> Assertion (metadata_length >= bios_geom.sectors) at disk_dos.c: 7739 in
> function_add_logical_part_metadata()failed

Can you try the install without passing hda=H,C,S?  The newer parted
that's included now should make it so that this isn't necessary.  And if
it doesn't, I'd be interested to hear it.

> 	The only report of failure that I get is that firstboot failed but
> usually there are a few other commands that execute before the reboot.

firstboot has been fixed (+ rhgb)

Jeremy





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