Hi Riccardo,

Riccardo Mottola via Dng writes:

> I have installed Chimaera on my Ultrabook - first as beta, then
> upgraded constantly. The system has a dual-disk setup under windows
> called smart cache or fast cache. One spinning rust and one smaller
> SSD. ON windows the two drives are one as one with a cache.

That sounds a lot like my Dell Vostro 3360 at the office, apart from the
fact that it doesn't have Windows (anymore, I zeroed both disks ;-).

> Actually, when installing linux, they are seen as two drives, sda and
> sdb. I thought, originally, to install on the SSD disk so to have a
> fast boot system and the rest of apps and user directories on spinning
> rust. However, I could not even partition the SSD, it always gave
> errors. SO I installed everything on sda. I had delays at boot
> however, later.

I vaguely remember something about not being able to "use" my SSD but
forgot the details. Whatever they were, letting

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

run until it complained about no disk space left fixed it for me.

Of course, if you want to keep that other OS around, that's not really
an option but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Just a thought, I may also have fiddled with the BIOS to make it boot
from the SSD before trying the HDD and made sure I installed GRUB in
the MBR of the SSD.

Hope this helps,
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