Assertion(heads>0)
Jonathan Berry
berryja at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 05:49:47 UTC 2004
Hi RIck,
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:57:33 -0800, Rick Lim <ricklim at telus.net> wrote:
> Trying to upgrade from a working FC2 to FC3, just after getting to the
> keyboard selection I get an error message
>
> Assertion (heads>0) at Disk_dos.c:485 in function probe_partion_for_geom()
> failure.
Hmm, it appears that your hard disk has no heads; that would be a
problem : ). Sorry, couldn't resist. More likely, something is
reporting that your hard disk has no heads, or returning a negative
number to indicate an error. Your FC2 still works, I assume. Try
doing an "fdisk -l" as root to see what it thinks your hard disk
geometry is. Or do something similar with parted as that is what is
used by the installer.
> I did a google search and found some prior references to FC2 and FC3 test 2
> but nothing about the final release.
Aha, there is a bug. It was marked as a duplicate of this bug:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419
Looks like there are instructions there for a work-around.
Jonathan
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