When you see the error just hit "cancel" and the install continues.. At
least it did for me.. :)
Later..
Rick Lim wrote:
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.
