Mint 5 and mix of IDE and SATA HDs

[alanmzifa]

Anybody else having problems with mix of IDE and SATA hds??

I believe that it may be a problem with the latest kernels and with a known GRUB bug that causes problems with some mobos.

Yes. See my thread here.
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 46&t=13446

Also still get the intramfs error about 60% of the times I try to boot into Mint 5.

It's very disappointing. I haven't seen a fix for this yet or anyone explaining why these multiple errors are happening.

[alanmzifa]

I'm dual booting but from 2 separate drives, Mint 5 on the IDE and XP on the SATA.

I seem to have gotten it sorted it. No open heart surgery either, for me at least.

I was getting errors for both Oses and it wouldn't boot to either. Fixmbr from XP's recovery console wouldn't fix the MBR. Oh, irony!
I found a piece of software online that would from http://www.dtidata.com. It correctly identified the SATA drive as a bootable drive so I unflagged and reflagged it as I suspected that's where one error was. SATA then booted XP but ignored the IDE drive so I knew MBR was fixed.
I re-installed Mint on the IDE but manually set sda rather than any specific partition of the IDE drive for placement of GRUB through the advanced settings button.

So far, so good. No initrms error etc. Even got Photoshop CS2 installed via Wine this afternoon. if only I could do the same for the Palm Desktop software....