I previously had a grub bootloader with crunchbang and win7. Since then I reinstalled win7 which now boots it automatically. I stuck in a Debian install CD that brings me to the stage in the above image. The highlighted logical ext4 partition is my existing Debian installation. If I change the settings to make it bootable it warns me that's generally only for primary partitions. The existing ntfs primary partition is just a storage disk the bootable windows 7 partition is on the 64gb Kingston drive.Am I safe to switch the ext4 to bootable? Do I need to make it primary too?
Reinstalling Debian: ext4 partition is not primary
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If I'm not mistaken, you don't have to set the partition to bootable. I run only dual-boot machines, and have never done this. Do you have a particular reason for doing so?