Thanks Glen for your great help last Sat, and also Daniel's, in finally figuring out what exactly happened to Justin PC's failure to partition the SSD for his Linux distro. Your explanation here in luv main list in clear technical details on the whole issue is certainly of great value to anyone who encounter similar issue in future! I'm sure this tricky problem will be solved on or before our next LUV Beginners Workshop. Cheers, Wen On Jun 21, 2015 12:07 AM, "Glenn McIntosh" <neonsignal@meme.net.au> wrote:

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On Jun 14, 2015 11:10 PM, "Justin Fisher" <justinlewisfisher@gmail.com <mailto:justinlewisfisher@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm still no further along with this install. I have tried again today with the KXstudio live disc, and for whatever reason the ssd is now no longer being recognized from the live disc and from Win7. The instructions listed in the links you sent I had pretty much already followed as I had used this guide

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on... On 16/06/15 06:19, Wen Lin wrote:> Are you able to bring just your desktop to our Linux Beginners Workshop

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this coming Sat 20 June? The address is: VPAC 110 Victoria St, Carlton South VIC 3053. Quite a number of us will be there, and can have a closer look at your SSD and troubleshooting.

Just an update on where things got to with Justin's install:

He has an SSD (with a Windows install) and 2 hard drives (data only). He wanted to add a second SSD with a KXStudio (Ubuntu 14.04 based) install, and end up with a dual boot system.

For some reason the distro wouldn't install with the new SSD on the fourth SATA port (failed during partitioning), but after removing the other disks and putting the new SSD on the second SATA port, it installed fine. Incidentally the BIOS wouldn't allow it to be added to the boot list until the distro was installed (presumably a secure boot feature). We decided to put grub on the Linux drive so that the Windows drive would still have the original boot even if used alone or moved to another machine.

What works: the BIOS can boot to either operating system, with that SSD alone; also, with both SSD drives in place, it can boot to Linux.

What doesn't work: (1) with both SSD drives in place (Windows on the first SATA port), an attempt to BIOS boot to Windows appears to start the Windows boot ("Windows is loading files"), but then the system boots from the other (Linux drive); (2) also, update-grub on the Linux side does not find the Windows system. We ran out of time to try adding the chainload entry in grub.cfg by hand.

The Windows drive is GPT partitioned, and the Linux drive is MBR partitioned, perhaps that is part of the problem?

Glenn -- sks-keyservers.net 0x6d656d65

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