On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Michel Salim wrote: > On 18/08/07, Michel Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > 9364 cylinders, the rest presumably gobbled up by the Hidden Protected > Area. Funnily, setting it to "disabled" in the BIOS does not affect > things. > > I tried using "hwprobe=-modules.pata" as specified in the release > notes, but now encounter another problem: YaST would read the hard > drive OK, and would verify the installation CD OK as well, but after > that, could not find the installation medium, and would continue > asking for "openSUSE 10.3 CD 1" to be inserted. > > This looks like a YaST bug -- is there a way to circumvent this? e.g. > manually mounting the CD in a specific directory. > > Failing that, can I instruct hwprobe to just skip pata for ide0 (hard > drive is attached as hda) but use pata for ide1 (optical drive was > hdc), and thus YaST would find the optical drive where it expected it?
This about openSUSE 10.3 is better on the factory list. I have added it. -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
