I have Debian on a laptop with a custom 2.4.20 kernel and although 
everything is working fine, 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' spits out a bunch of 
errors: "Partition N does not end on cylinder boundary:".  I think this 
is because the running kernel is detecting different cylinder, head, 
sector values.

dmesg shows CHS=2432/255/63 when running my custom kernel yet the
default debian kernel off cd#1 (bf24 with 2.4.18 kernel) shows 
CHS=2584/240/63.   The physical drive CHS = 16383/15/63 and there
doesn't seem to be a way to specify any options in the BIOS.  I believe
the CHS=2584/240/63 is correct because both Debian woody cd#1 and a
Slackware 8.1 cd report this when I boot them and run fdisk.

I first thought it was a lilo issue but playing with options there had 
no effect.  It appears to be something different in my custom kernel.
I went back though my .config but didn't see anything obvious.  Also
googled for a while with no luck.

Anyone else experience this or know of a kernel option that would affect
this?
-- 
scot

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