I tried running the openSUSE 10.3b1 installer (using the GNOME x86 CD), and ran across a problem with detected disk geometry on a Thinkpad T41p, with no other OS installed. I have had problems in the past with openSUSE 10.2: fdisk detects a C/H/S geometry of 9729/255/63, while the kernel itself would detect a much higher C value, with H=16. On my first install things worked fine for a while, until the system locked up during use a few days afterwards (running the latest kernel), which is probably due to the kernel accessing the disk (and writing to it) using the wrong geometry. On 10.2 I can just pass 'hda=9729,255,63' to force the kernel to use the same geometry used to partition the disk. On 10.3, I tried passing 'sda=9729,255,63' but to no avail; YaST would warn that parted could not access the disk and thus I could not touch the partition table, and dropping to a console and checking with fdisk shows that only 9300-something cylinders are detected. Has something changed in the kernel between 2.6.18 and 2.6.22 that causes even fdisk/parted to see a different geometry? How can I override this at boot time? Out of curiosity, I've seen claims that keeping a Windows partition on disk would force parted etc. to use the disk geometry that Windows sees, so a consistent geometry is always used. Any truth to that? Many thanks, -- Michel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org