In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop


Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D: drive on install.

After trying every scenerio online. I still come up short.

I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

Out of the box (2018) it was setup in RAID config.

The BIOS shows the two drives as
First HDD none
Second HDD none
Third HDD IntelSSDlkji (180.G)
fourth HDD sd2000louol (2000.3G)

Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds spot?

And any other actions I would need to take?

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In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop

Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
drive on install.

After trying every scenerio online. I still come up short.

I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

Out of the box (2018) it was setup in RAID config.

The BIOS shows the two drives as
First HDD none
Second HDD none
Third HDD IntelSSDlkji (180.G)
fourth HDD sd2000louol (2000.3G)

Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds
spot?

And any other actions I would need to take?

Try using a Linux Live CD like systemrescuecd. Boot it, see if that detects it.
Also look at the output of "dmesg", see if that reports any errors, and the output of the command 'lsblk'.

I'm not too familiar with Slackware installer, but if there is a way to get to a command line interface WITHIN the installer to run commands, you could do this within the Slackware installer. Often with Linux installers you can get access to a shell.

dmesg will show you all the kernel messages. If you look through it, it will mention everything the kernel has detected in terms of hardware. It will indicate if its found the other hard drive or not, and should detect any RAID set up.

lsblk is another command which simply lists block devices.

It is a little unusual for Linux not to see the drive, I've never really come across that before.

It's also important to understand that Linux does NOT do drive letters, it does devices. C: and D: are windows constructs for PARTITIONS. First partition C:, Second D: and so on. D: could actually be on the SAME disk as C:

Also, if you have a second hard-drive, but it is NOT partitioned for Windows, it
won't come up as D: at all.

If you could let us know what 'lsblk' reports, that would help.

A drive will appear to be something like
/dev/sdd
with each partition
/dev/sdd1
/dev/sdd2
etc

The fact that the BIOS is finding it means that Linux SHOULD see it as well. Lets see what Linux actually reports first, and verify this isn't simply a case of it actually seeing it and you not recognising that it found it.

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Bogomips wrote to All <=-

In and attempt to have a dual boot laptop

Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
drive on install.

This doesn't really make any sense to me. Slackware doesn't know
anything about any "D:". That's a Windows term.

After trying every scenerio online. I still come up short.

I was thinking of changing the physical location of the drive?

Not sure what that means. Attach it to a different port/cable?

Out of the box (2018) it was setup in RAID config.

I would recommend not doing RAID, at least for now. I don't know a
whole lot about RAID, but don't the 2 drives have to be the same size to
use RAID? The data below shows them as different sizes.

The BIOS shows the two drives as
First HDD none
Second HDD none
Third HDD IntelSSDlkji (180.G)
fourth HDD sd2000louol (2000.3G)

Strange, seems they would show up as the First and Second. Are these
SATA? PATA/IDE? M2/NVME? What are they?

Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds
spot?

Not sure what that even means.

And any other actions I would need to take?

Get them connected to (maybe/probably) the SATA0 and SATA1 connectors
(I'm assuming SATA drives here). If you can boot up to the Slackware installation media (USB stick?), then run fdisk/cfdisk/cgdisk to wipe
the partion table out on both drives. Then create new partitions as
desired. Then reboot into the installation media and start the install.

Get the "D:" out of your head when installing Linux/Slackware. Also, in
my dim memory of when I used to dual boot, I believe it's usually
(always?) best to install Windoze before whatever Linux distro you want
to install.

Feel free to ask some more questions with some actual useful info on
your setup/config if you need to. Good luck.



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Re: Re: Hard Drive configuration
By: Gamgee to Bogomips on Mon May 12 2025 09:33 pm

Ive been trying to get get the slackware install to recognize the D:
drive on install.

This doesn't really make any sense to me. Slackware doesn't know anything about any "D:". That's a Windows term.

I wondered if his "D:" drive is a partition on a secondary hard drive. He may be referring to a specific hard drive he has, wanting to install Linux on it.

Was wondering if I could move the D: drive to the first or seconds spot?

Not sure what that even means.

If he's referring to a specific hard drive he has, I imagined this might mean plugging it into a different SATA port or something.

Nightfox

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