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What happens with optical drives
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Hmm lots of suspicion at the new drive. I wasn’t as deliberate as you described, but that new ssd now has arch on it and boots fine.
I guess maybe I’ll ask this question. Should I be able to just unplug an optical drive, and plug in anything else into that sata port without linux hanging? I wouldn’t expect the new drive to DO anything until it’s partitioned/formatted/mounted etc. but can I just swap components and expect to be able to boot?
Yes you should be able to safely swap all drives around without any issue, unless you had an unusual setup (such as a swap file, or your bootloader, on a separate drive from your linux install partition).
Sometimes drives can be formatted/initialized incorrectly from the factory. Most drives, especially those for internal use, are shipped uninitialized, aka they have no file table system whatsoever, which linux should handle safely (but maybe it didn't). Less often they are shipped with a formatted file system, usually on external USB drives as fat32 or exFAT, and sometimes that FS can be corrupted real good in my experience. Idk. If its working fine now and passes all its self checks its probably just a weird fluke.
Check your boot order in your bios. Perhaps the optical drive's sata port was first in the order and now the drive is there instead. If this drive doesn't have a bootloader then it can't boot. And since you are tripling booting maybe the bootloader is on a different drive which needs to be first in the boot order.
Edit: Also I would take out all drives and try them one at a time in that first port until i could get one to boot, then I would put the other drives into the remaining slots.
The boot order is uefi hdd (which I can then pick the hard drive’s boot order in a sub menu), then uefi usb, then uefi optical drive, then network. I don’t think that’s the issue - it should always find something to boot before the optical drive.
I’m going to try the one drive at a time in that first port thing and add/move the rest around. I haven’t been as deliberate with the troubleshooting here as I should have (I immediately went towards a software issue - fstab or something similar). I could have a port / mobo problem. Need to separate software from hardware issue better. Luckily I have three installed operating systems on three drives and plenty of bootable isos to play with. ;)
100%. Keep us updated. I personally love a good puzzle.