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Re: Installing Debian on a Microtel w/o OS



* Ed Heaney <epjh@speakeasy.net> [2003-11-15 20:54]:
> I chose to have a swap partition.
> The error I get when trying to write a partitions table is:
> No primary partitions are marked bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this.

You have to mark the Linux partition you've created to contain / as
bootable.  In the partition program, there's an option "[bootable]"
(Toggle bootable flag of the current partition).  Use that to mark it
as bootable.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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