EeePC upgraded, original small SSD no longer detected

[roncrump]

I decided to give my EeePC 901 a facelift and hopefully a prolonged lifespan, so I installed additional RAM (1GB -> 2GB) and exchanged the 16GB SSD for a new 64GB one. The plan being to install Debian with LXDE on the 64GB drive and get away from disk space on the 4GB SSD being an issue whenever there were a chunk of packages to upgrade.

Having done the installation, I booted straight into a netinst USB but it did not detect the old 4GB SSD. I went ahead and installed on the 64 GB SSD.

Now, unsuprisingly, it still fails to detect the 4GB SSD and I get a message "No IDE Master HDD Detected" followed by Press F1 to continue. After pressing F1 it boots happily.

So, is there anything I can do to get it to recognise the 4GB SSD (I'll happily re-install the system again if I need to)? If not, can I set something to automatically skip past the BIOS warning message about not finding it (I presume that is what the message relates to)?

Thanks.

Ron.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I would check all the hardware connections -- if your firmware (BIOS) is throwing out an error message it's probably nothing to do with the operating system.

[roncrump]

I would check all the hardware connections

Thanks I'll have a poke around. Didn't think I touched much in there, beyond the RAM and SSD bits I had to, but I've got big hands to be playing about inside an EeePC so I've probably bodged something.

[roncrump]

It seems this is a hardware thing, nothing to do with debian as pointed out by others.

See https://blog.binarymist.net/2013/05/25/ ... 1-4gb-ssd/ for some discussion.

With a bit of tinkering about you can replace the 4Gb SSD with your new, big one and that will then be seen as the primary drive and everything will be great. I haven't tried to put anything else into the second slot.