Has anone got this error? On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after writing the partition info and initializing my root partition) and so rebooted the machine (by going into the installation option to reboot the machine) to do the install once more. However, this time, when I went to partition the drive cfdisk stated "fatal error: ban primary partition". So I went to fdisk and erased the partition info (fdisk seemed to work) and ran cfdisk once more and all was fine. I installed debian and everything worked fine.
Now, a few days later I went to install NT (unfortunately I have to run some NT software for school), and NT disabled the "bootability" of Linux. So I used a boot disk to get back to Linux, and tried running cfdisk to get the partition with linux (the primary partition) bootable, but cfdisk now complains: "Fatal error: bad primary partition". Any ideas on what this error means? Is my hard drive bad? I noticed that cfdisk gives me cylinder/head/sector information on my drive that does not matchmy hard drive specs ... should I use cfdisk to change that info? Thanks for any advice!
