Christian Mathes wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I currently try to install Debian 2.1. I have problems
> to configure my hard disk drive properly.
Just as friendly assistance in your English usage -and
I see that your English is quite good- the gerund form,
in this case, "configuring", is more often used as the
verbal noun denoting an action, than the infinite form,
which is opposite, as I understand from my studies in
German and Spanish, to most other European languages.
English is pathological in this respect, as in many
others. I wish to abandon it, but I can't seem to
get along with out it at this time.
> With the help of cfdisk 0.8, I created a partition table with this shape:
>
> name flags partition type file system size
> hda1 boot primary Win95 FAT32 3498 MB
^^^^--------------------------------------------------
> hda5 logical Linux Swap 125 MB +
> hda6 boot logical Linux 4408 MB +---which one?
^^^^--------------------------------------------------
> When I saved this configuration, I recieved this error message:
>
> writing partition table...
> no primary partition is bootable
> The DOS-MBR can'tboot from it.
> Change bootability of current pariution
>
> So far the message. Well, at this moment, the cursor is at hda6 and this
> device is marked as bootable.
>
> Can you please tell me, what I did wrong here?
My guess is that the problem is having two partition marked
as bootable.
