Re: Installation problem
Daniel Karlsson wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It's been a while since I wrote about this but it's been a tough week. I
> repeat my problem.
>
> I'm trying to install debian linux on my computer. It works fine until I'm
> supposed to partition my hard drive. Then fdisk complaints that it can't
> seek on it. This is the message I get:
>
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on hard drive
>
> I know that it really finds the drive since it's listed correctly when the
> installation programme detects what hardware I've got. I've tried to change
> the mode from LBA to NORMAL on the BIOS, but that doesn't do any good.
>
> Has anyone got an idea of what's wrong?
I don't know what's wrong but I did experience this same problem on
one system I installen Debian on. It was a new P6 system with a 4.3GB
disk and NT pre-installed. Durring the initial install process cfdisk
failed with the error message you describe. After several minutes of
shock I started a shell and tried cfdisk manually. It failed again as
you'd expect. Then I ran fdisk. It worked and wrote a new partition
table. Then I tried cfdisk again and it worked now too. I guess cfdisk
just didn't like something about the pre-installed NT partions and
partition table.
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