WinNT boot code
A couple days ago I was installing Debian 2.1 and came across something that
might cause people problems...My first partition is NTFS, and I'm running NT
4. When I was creating my / partition during the Debian install, I had the
option to flag it "active", so not thinking, I did. Upon rebooting, I got
"Invalid Partition Table" Turns out, the WinNT boot code halts if you have
more then one partition marked "active", which I now had. Unmarking the
partition solved the problem. I was just thinking it might be nice to put
in a check for Microsoft boot code and warn you about that when you try to
mark a second partition active, at least during the initial installation.
If this is already documented...sorry, but I didn't see it =:-]
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Josh Miller
ICQ UIN: 4405266
E-Mail: omniflux@thepentagon.com
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