BUG

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Mon Dec 20 09:08:54 UTC 2004



Digitalcowboy00 wrote:

> Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> 
> * parted exception: Bug: Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) 
> at disk_dos.c:495 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
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> Anyone know if this has been fixed yet, I tried to load FC 3 and keep 
> getting Bug messages.    Anyone else having this problem?

That's a very old problem and is easily fixed with a special cfdisk 
command line. However, just searching my PC I haven't found it even 
though I had to do it myself when I wanted to do an upgrade. I should've 
kept it.

Sorry, you're going to have to search google.

Regards,
Ed.




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