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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]