"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.

I still don't know what the cause of the partition error could have been,
but it seems to me an error (or at least strange behaviour) of cfdisk (the
debian partition program, if I am right): my partition table looked okay to
me, and BootitNG, the partitioning program I used, gave no trouble or
errors.
After some more googling it seemed to me that this error message sometimes
occurs in case of larger than average hard-disks, when trying to set up a
dual boot system with windows. My knowledge goes no further ...

Thanks all folks,

Sjoerd

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