You probable are running into a version of this error https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419 It includes an update that you can install on a diskette, and when you run the install you use linux update (the database is down for maintance, so I can not check the exact command) or something like that instead of just enter. It will then prompt you to insert the diskette, and it will read the updated info that gets around the problem with the geometry of the drive. There are also some other solutions listed, so you might want to look at all the options. On 30 Dec 2004 at 0:00, Phil Scherzinger wrote: Date sent: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:49 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Phil Scherzinger <pscherz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fedora 3 Install troubles Send reply to: Phil Scherzinger <pscherz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Got a new pc, and am trying to install Fedora 3. I get the following message: > > assertion (heads > 0) at disk_doc.c:485 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed > > I am given two options, Ignore, and Cancel. > > Message is displayed several times with "heads > 0" changing back and forth to sectors > xx (xx value seems to change). Also the value on "c:485" also changes. > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > Basic PC config is: > > p4, 2.4ghz > 512m mem > 120gb sata drive > 80gb eide drive > memorex cdrw > dvdrw > > Thanks in advance > > Phil > > Phil and Bev Scherzinger > Spring, Tx 77388 > > We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that takes our breath. Today . I wish you a day of ordinary miracles ... .. A fresh pot of coffee you didn't make yourself .. An unexpected phone call from an old friend . > Green stoplights on your way to work .. The fastest line at the grocery store . A good sing-along song on the radio .. Your keys right where you left them. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 15,189 Processing time: 29 years, 280 days, 8 hours, 49 minutes (Total Hours: 260,769)
