Re: This might be OT - install from live CD to SSD
On 2014-08-11 09:59, Joe Feely wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 20 to a replacement Kingston SSDNOW300V 120
GB SSD, from the live CD (Mate DE spin). The previous similar SSD died
after 4 months excellent use.
My hardware is a bundle consisting of:-
Motherboard - Asrock FM2A75 Pro 4+ with CPU an AMD trinity A4 5300,
and 2x2GB DDR3 RAM
What's happening:-
On starting the bios (UEFI) can see the SSD (even displays the S/N);
within UEFI is the only time I can see the SSD.
Fedora 20 live CD boots up ok (bar can't see the SSD), and following
the option to install to hard drive it can't see any hard drive.
(I tried with Linux Mint 16, and the same problem).
A friend has successfully connected to the drive via an external SSD
reader (connected by USB 3), and used a program "Partition wizard 8"
to format it, and copy and read some files successfully (he was
running Windows 7).
Any ideas what I could try ?
Look in the firmware setup to see what drive options you have, look for
whether it's attempting to set it up as a firmware RAID device.
And in any case boot the installer media again, get to a shell and
capture and post the following: dmesg, /tmp/storage.log, lsblk. What
you're describing doesn't sound like it's either partitioning or
formatting related, the installer should see the device no matter how
it's partitioned or formatted.