Ok, so I've installed the LXLE before, but this time I opted to include the third party software and drivers as well. During the installation, the screen locked, and a message saying "Fat's loves Madeline" popped up. I was able to continue by hitting enter key.
Whatt?? Do you think I should blow it away and reinstall, or is this a known inside joke?
2nd issue. System boots only when I attach the ssd through a sata to usb converter. When I try to boot it directly as a plain old Sata drive, the system doesnt see it.
The second issue sounds like you don't have the BIOS boot order set up, I am assuming you are running a multi-disk system?
Also check the /etc/fstab file, I manually edit mine to mount all the drives partitions. I gather all the UUIDs and this is an example of my setup. --code follows-- # / was on /dev/sdc2 during installation UUID=820883d8-a811-4c0d-b372-75ece3d293c7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sdc1 during installation UUID=BBCE-0B03 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sdc3 during installation UUID=de57c833-66b0-4cbe-ab7c-a0139e4fe68c none swap sw 0 0 # below this point I set all these by hand. Above is set up by the system on install. UUID=6d94e93d-b1b9-430a-b840-04b8dc93eb7e /media/sysop/Emporium auto auto,nofail 0 0 UUID=9f844768-0d79-45b4-acec-d72d59e82c4b /media/sysop/Chamber auto auto,nofail 0 0 UUID=39ebe1de-1beb-4c6e-9365-25f3778eceeb /media/sysop/Dominion auto auto,nofail 0 0 UUID=45062a05-f00b-42c7-9f4a-f56ab4edc7db /media/sysop/Galaxy auto auto,nofail 0 0
--cut here-- Chamber and Dominion are on the same 1 TB drive, also my oldest drive. Emporium is another 1 TB drive used as my file server. Galaxy is a 120 GB partition on a 250 GB SSD. The same SSD, I have the OS, swap and efi boot.
The first issue, is the screen locker, locksnap seems to have humorous quotes attached to the application. I don't use the app and disabled it after install.
You can find the locksnap bash script located in /usr/local/bin The app called fortune is a program that summons the random phrase. You can open terminal and type fortune to get various random quotes and proverbs.