Assertion(heads>0)

[Jonathan Berry]

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