Marathon Hardware and Software Update

I am home bound and with rainy season coming one month late, I have zero outdoor activity and my  rooftop garden need no intervention.

I planted 10 seeds of corn and only two are germinating.
No need for watering.

I have collected lot of computer gadgets and have one spare IDE hard disk and several large SATA Disks on which I had installed old copies of Linux some of them 32 bits and not booting with my PC.

I have several small SATA Disks and installed SparkyLinux on the SSD I removed from the PC.

It is only 120GB and I replaced it with 1 terra byte SATA.

I must say from the outset if not for the Ubuntu 21.10 I would not have done any of this.

I got Debian 11.4 and Ubuntu installed in my Intel NUC and I could not boot them (I have made some mistakes ) and I used another SATA external disk and installed Ubuntu and got Ubuntu and Debian booting from GRUB installed in the external disk.

This was bit annoying to say the least. I want it to be booted from the master SATA inside the NUC.

I resized the root partition of UBUNTU and installed Linux Mint and allowed it to write the GRUB on the SATA inside the NUC but it did not boot, this time round,too.

I had a little pause and studied the partition table and nothing wrong with both having EFI partitions.

I reinstalled Ubuntu on the external disk and made sure I installed the GRUB in the master or SDDa.

I made sure I selected the EFI on SDDa disk at partitioning.

It did the trick and all three Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian  are booting.

I did not remove the external disk, just in case but would take it out on a later date and see whether I can boot it from my old PC.

My guess is it won't since the boot record is on the SDDa.

But since I did not erase the EFI partition in the slave or external  disk there is some slight possibility of booting Ubuntu and Mint since an earlier occasion, I installed the GRUB on SDDb disk.

I mounted DeepIn on IDE mounted on an external case.
It booted once but I had an IDE of 10GB not working (remove from my first PC) and decided to put it inside the case, mount it with the PC.
Unfortunately something went wrong and the on / off switch and red diode stop flashing.
The current flows and the transformer is OK.

I think the case is dead and with it both my IDE disks.

No regrets since even though parallel data flow is consistent it is time for me to day good bye to all IDE disks.

I hate this master, slave cable select protocols and mounting only 32GB of  80GB disk.
Besides I can install only one Linux distribution.

Even 40GB SATA disk I removed from an IBM server I am going to discard.

Luckily I did not have any data in any of these disks only LINUX operating installed for testing purposes.

I have two SATA one 40 and 160.
Both are not booting and I selected the bigger one to install Ubuntu.

I accidentally dropped the case on the cement floor and everything came out in pieces and the back panel's plastic (plugs) locks broke.

Thankfully CBS did not crack.

I ised black tapes electricians use and sealed it and installed Ubuntu and it is running smoothly.

40GB SATA I cannot use it is too small for even Linux.

It is going to be discarded.

By the way, my first PC with 1MB on board  VGA and 128 RAM won't boot even with Ubuntu 5.4.
I did boot Ubuntu 5.4 on it first time round.

This happened after I tried to install Windows 98.
Windows 98 did something to the BIOS and even Puppy cannot mount on RAM now.
All Windows are pain in the Axsrxc and that is why I HATE Microsoft and stopped using Windows over 25 years ago.

It was one of my clever decisions that come good and me becoming a Linux Addict for life.

In spite of long use of Linux I still make basic mistakes not necessarily due to my mistakes.

It all due to some distributions diverging from the basics and try to do new things not time tested.

In that scenario, Ubuntu even though, I do not use regularly for my simple attachment to Debian may change eventually, since Ubuntu community is active and work hard to get things right.

Me making mistakes due to old age, learning new things (there is a price to pay for my mistakes ) does not come easy.

This site is called Linux 100 and I have done more than 1000 pieces on Linux.

It looks like time is right for me to take it easy or perhaps retire completely.