Bob, MUCH appreciated, I'll give it a try tonite, it has been driving me crazy as I have done a couple of clean installs on different machines with out this same error. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Parnass, AJ9S [mailto:usenet4@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:44 AM To: Rick Lim Subject: re: Assertion error installing FC3 Rick, I read your posting in the Fedora-list archives. I don't subscribe, so I can't post this response there. When I upgraded from FC2 to FC3, I saw the same error messages you saw about: "Assertion(heads>0) at disk_dos.c: 485 in function probe_partion_for_geom() failure." A web search found an explanation and a solution at: <http://lwn.net/Articles/86835> Apparently, the initial installation of FC2 damaged the disk geometry due to a bug in FC2. This interferes with upgrading to FC3. I applied the fix described in the LWN article and was able to upgrade successfully from FC2 to FC3. Hope this helps. -- ========================================================================= Bob Parnass, AJ9S GNU/Linux User http://parnass.com
