partition problem; "partition table inconsistent.."

[Matthew Scott Burton <msb13 duke edu>]

i'm installing RH 7.2 to dual boot with Win98. I created a new
partition at cylinder 1012; my Win partition has about 7.9 gigs, my
linux partition about 5. yet when i get to disk druid or fdisk, i get
the message,

"The partition table on /tmp/hda is inconsistent [...] detected the
BIOS geometry incorrectly.  However, this does not appear to be the
case here[...]safe to ignore[...]may cause (fixable) problems with some
boot loaders [...]".

when using fdisk, the first thing it tells me is that my partition is
1664 cylinders. What? I installed RH 6 before (and have since deleted
it) and placed the partition in about the same location (just below
1024) and didn't have this problem. What's strange is that the
language of this message implies that it's the SIZE of the partition
that matters ("this partition is 1664 cylinders. there's nothing wrong
with that, but it's greater than 1024..."), instead of its starting
point, which I thought was critical for the boot partition. Either
way, neither the starting point nor the total size of this partition
are anywhere near 1664. Any suggestions?


thanks,
matt