Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Richard Hall wrote: > After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a > verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain > because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap > partition, it immediately chokes, saying "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary > partition". I can't believe that the hard drive is bad, as it worked fine > under NT before the formatting, and the SCSI disk utilities detect no > problems. What can I do? Uhm, I had a similar problem with a new computer a few days before. I installed Linux over a Windows-System. After I was ready an rebooted the BIOS told me "there are no bootable partition on hdd... - unable to boot". Genius! I had to toggle the bootable flag of the Linux partition. Perhaps your BIOS thinks the partition is bad because it is not flagged as bootable? Just an idea... Tell me if it works! cu Torsten
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