> You were right.  My partitions were not cylinder-aligned.  I didn't
> realize that it could effect vm this way.  It's an old configuration
> mistake that's been around for a long time.  Good thing I caught it
> before it did any real damage.

It has nothing to do with "affecting VM" -- it's just that if you
try to use a sector that's not on your disk, you get an error...

I don't think you ever said whether your swap partition (or whatever
partition the error was caused by) ran off the end of the disk?



cgd