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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Thomas Beer wrote:

> Correct. It states that the Geometry fdisk is assuming differs with that
> the BIOS issues. So I should correct the BIOS disk setting, which,
> apparently, are correct.

I can't speak directly to IBM, but I've seen this behavior on machines w/
vendor utilities on the first slice on the disk.  Dell is the first
that comes to mind.  If IBM has proprietary system utilities on the first
slice, that may cause the behavior you describe.
     -W