Asertion(heads>0) on IBM disk install
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Wed Nov 17 16:30:25 UTC 2004
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419
This seems to be the starting bug, since other errors of this type
keep getting bounced back to this one as duplicates. I had the same
problem updating a multi-boot system with 98/XP/Linux. Worked fine
with RH9, FC1, and FC2, but FC3 fails, even with the update
patches they have come out with. A clean install of FC3 works on
the machine after completely wiping the disk, but this is a student
lab, and I need to have all three OSs.
On 16 Nov 2004 at 22:32, Rick Lim wrote:
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> I am upgrading a FC2 to FC3 and using a 350 mhz Asus P2B motherboard with an
> IBM IBM-DTLA-305030 disk (30 gig drive).
>
> When I try to upgrade it looks like the upgrade tries to read the disk
> geometry and then gives an error :
>
> Assertion(heads>0) at disk_dos.c: 485 in function probe_partion_for_geom()
> failure.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem with upgrading ????
>
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