Re: Geometry assertions

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:42:25PM -0300, Jose Geraldo Gouvea wrote:
> > Parted Version: 1.6.15

Please note that this is pretty old parted.

> > Assertion (heads < 256) at disk_dos.c:486 in function
> > probe_partition_for_geom()
> > failed.
> We have this and another failed assertion regarding the number of heads
> (see other mail).
> Shouldn't we offer to continue/fix this instead of throwing exceptions?

It would be nice to improve parted's error reporting, at least for the most 
often reported issues, so problems could be (much easier) understood and 
fixed. Currently the common pattern is that people send the same useless 
bug reports for years.

        Szaka