Dual Booting LL 2.0 with other Ubuntu (14.04) based distros

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Sounds like something got changed by accident on the system.  If both HDDs work without problem when installing one OS in entirety to each, then would guess that nothing wrong with them.  Sounds like you have re-installed that way for now -- correct?  Before you changed to one OS per HDD, did you have problem booting into both OSs from grub menu or just into LL?

I can't think of any reason why booting and performance would get messed up simply by attaching a game wheel.

Do you remember if you performed any updates recently in LL 2.0?  If so, there may have been an update that asked you whether to replace a couple of config files with new versions or keep existing ones.  The right answer to that is to keep the existing configs.  Maybe you replaced them and that somehow caused the problem.  Here's a long post describing what I'm talking about:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...opic=632.0.

Have you tried re-installing with partitions spread over both drives again?

I'm really not sure what the problem is.  My setup is similar to yours except I don't use a /home partition.  I have root partitions and a data partition on one drive; swap and a couple of other partitions on another drive.  Below I've attached output showing my drives with mount points and also a copy of my fstab file.

Code:

bill@Gold:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0    25G  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part
├─sda3   8:3    0 223.1G  0 part /mnt/DATA
└─sda5   8:5    0    25G  0 part /
sdb      8:16   0 596.2G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0     9G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sdb2   8:18   0   230G  0 part
├─sdb3   8:19   0     1K  0 part
├─sdb5   8:21   0    40G  0 part /mnt/ISOs
├─sdb6   8:22   0    40G  0 part
└─sdb7   8:23   0   200G  0 part /mnt/VBoxHDs
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom 
bill@Gold:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a9222190-0805-47ef-a2e2-e98b19d84b54 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=c4933327-f314-42ee-8b4a-ec3e48a0ded5 none            swap    sw              0       0
# Mount DATA partition
UUID=ceee2524-7df2-4d21-a1f7-9e7e55c722cc    /mnt/DATA    ext4    defaults    0    2
# Mount ISOs partition
UUID=15443ba5-bdd0-4f0d-ae19-420022a7aab7    /mnt/ISOs    ext4    defaults    0    0
# Mount VBoxHDs partition
UUID=3e68db3c-2acd-4718-812e-93e10bf63cf5    /mnt/VBoxHDs    ext4    defaults    0    0

If you haven't tried re-doing the installs across both HDDs and have the time to do it, try again and make sure your fstab file ends up similar to mine (different UUIDs ofcourse).

If by chance you currently still have this setup

Code:

zorin9@zorin9-X71Q:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0   0  74.5G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  37.3G  0 part /
└─sda2   8:2    0  37.3G  0 part
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0     1K  0 part
├─sdb2   8:18   0   9.5G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sdb5   8:21   0   922G  0 part /mnt/DATA
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom 

and can not boot into your installed LL, boot up with your live LL DVD.  Then open a terminal and post back output of following commands:

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
cat /mnt/etc/issue
cat /mnt/etc/lsb-release
cat /mnt/etc/fstab
sudo umount /mnt

Maybe those will give a clue as to what's going wrong.