In alt.os.linux Sjoerd Mulder <newsREMOVE@sjoerdmulderandthis.electronischepost. nlandthis>:
> "John Hasler" <jhasler@debian.org> wrote in message
> news:87d5xqxbob.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org...
>> I suspect switching distributions won't solve his problem, though. I
> think
>> he needs to fix his partition table.

> Well, that's what I thought... So I gave it a try, installed
> Mandrake....and....

> It works! No errors, no problems.

Glad to hear you got things working, sure this was only a remote
experience based guess, that another installer might be more
clever then the debian one. Perhaps there aren't that much debian
dual boot system?

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