Problem identifying hard drives
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:14 am
I tried LMDE, im really excited about the concept i like distributions that are as close to the source as possible, instead of being dervived from another derivation
But...
I noticed a major bug in the way LMDE identifies my hard drives.
Specs:
1 IDE 160gb hard drive houses all the system partitions, (XP, and linux), plus a 100gb ext4 partition for music and pics
1 SATA 1000gb hard drive contais a 950gb ext4 partition for videos (television and movies)
Problems:
A) during installation, i wasn't able to create a mountpoint for the other drive, only mountpoints for the drive the system was going to be housed on. I had to get pysdm to create a mountpoint for the SATA drive.
B) and this is really what i'd call a major bug, on every boot, the system switches the identifiers for the drives,
1st boot: IDE drive labelled as sda, SATA drive as sdb
2nd boot: IDE drive labelled as sdb, SATA drive as sda
3rd boot: IDE drive labelled as sda, SATA drive as sdb
so on and so forth.
I had to install grub on both drives to be able to boot, otherwise i only sucessfully booted every second attempt.
I also remember having the exact same problem a year ago when i last tried vanilla Mint. (the plain gnome, ubuntu based distro).
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I do not have this problem running any of the Ubuntu versions, and Crunchbang (debian base) doesn't pose a problem either. It's something with the Mint installer.
~Freddy
But...
I noticed a major bug in the way LMDE identifies my hard drives.
Specs:
1 IDE 160gb hard drive houses all the system partitions, (XP, and linux), plus a 100gb ext4 partition for music and pics
1 SATA 1000gb hard drive contais a 950gb ext4 partition for videos (television and movies)
Problems:
A) during installation, i wasn't able to create a mountpoint for the other drive, only mountpoints for the drive the system was going to be housed on. I had to get pysdm to create a mountpoint for the SATA drive.
B) and this is really what i'd call a major bug, on every boot, the system switches the identifiers for the drives,
1st boot: IDE drive labelled as sda, SATA drive as sdb
2nd boot: IDE drive labelled as sdb, SATA drive as sda
3rd boot: IDE drive labelled as sda, SATA drive as sdb
so on and so forth.
I had to install grub on both drives to be able to boot, otherwise i only sucessfully booted every second attempt.
I also remember having the exact same problem a year ago when i last tried vanilla Mint. (the plain gnome, ubuntu based distro).
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I do not have this problem running any of the Ubuntu versions, and Crunchbang (debian base) doesn't pose a problem either. It's something with the Mint installer.
~Freddy