I have 2 partitions on drive supporting linux. swap and the boot partition.
the swap partition is the first on the drive and the boot partition the second partition in order on the drive.
when I set the hardware to boot from this disk (hdd-1) (first drive is hdd-0)I get an endless list of 00 or 99. I suspect that the hardware is looking for the MBR on the first partition (swap) and not finding one. I know that the second partition is active and has a Master Boot Record set.

1) am I rigth 2) is ther a way to relocate to position of these partitions.

Hi Jason2,
You don't need to relocate the partitions. Also linux doesn't worry with the active partition. I need to know if your linux disk was installed as hdd when you installed the linux. Did you setup lilo or grub as your boot manager? If you changed the position, did you reconfigure grub or lilo and "/etc/fstab" to reflect the change?

through the Suse 9.0 boot utility I was able to set the partition as active and to load the MBR. Linux does not care but i suspect that the BIOS will seek the first partition on the disk. the BIOS is AWARD.

Hi Phillip,
There are some bioses which don't boot without one active partition on the disk. But all the bios does is to load the MBR and transfer control to it. In this case, it is irrelevant which partition is active.
Cheers.