I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache.
I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks are visible to the installer. They can be found in dmesg, so Linux is detecting them, but they do not show in the installer window for hard disk selection. I tried both the live and the non-live installation media.
Any suggestions? I'm desperate :(.
Ciao,
seba
On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache.
I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks are visible to the installer. They can be found in dmesg, so Linux is detecting them, but they do not show in the installer window for hard disk selection. I tried both the live and the non-live installation media.
Any suggestions? I'm desperate :(.
Ciao,
seba
Since it is a brand new model, it may be an issue with missing hardware drivers. Could you provide the output from dmesg that you have referred to.
You could try booting with Fedora 20 Alpha from http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease .
Or you may try creating a custom Fedora ISO with the latest version of packages. Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testin...
- rejy (rmc)
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:49:07 +0530 Rejy M Cyriac rcyriac@redhat.com wrote:
On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache.
yum search bcache-tools may be required?
a Rejy states you could also test the latest F20*rc https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2013-November/000807...
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac rcyriac@redhat.com wrote:
On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
Since it is a brand new model, it may be an issue with missing hardware drivers. Could you provide the output from dmesg that you have referred to.
It's included in this message.
You could try booting with Fedora 20 Alpha from http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease .
Yep, that was my second tentative. No hope :(.
Ciao,
seba
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac rcyriac@redhat.com wrote:
Since it is a brand new model, it may be an issue with missing hardware drivers. Could you provide the output from dmesg that you have referred to.
Oh, an important thing. I can happily see the drives with fdisk. I opened them and removed the windows partition without problems. It's just the installer that's not showing them.
Ciao,
seba
On 11/07/2013 12:35 AM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
I hope someone as suggestions about this. The Dell XPS 8700 is a brand-new model using the i7-4770. The 8700 has a 2T HD and a 32GB SSD that is supposed to act as a cache.
I've been trying to install Fedora, only to discover that no hard disks are visible to the installer. They can be found in dmesg, so Linux is detecting them, but they do not show in the installer window for hard disk selection. I tried both the live and the non-live installation media.
Any suggestions? I'm desperate :(.
Ciao, seba
Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me.
On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:49 PM, Dan Thurman dant@cdkkt.com wrote:
Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me.
Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb".
Does that rings a bell to anybody?
Ciao,
seba
On 11/08/13 18:43, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:49 PM, Dan Thurman dant@cdkkt.com wrote:
Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me.
Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb".
Does that rings a bell to anybody?
No, but when you boot your system to you get any sort of splash screen that displays a RAID configuration?
Also, you could try booting after disconnecting sdb to see if that makes a difference.
On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:10 PM, Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko@greshko.com wrote:
Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb".
Does that rings a bell to anybody?
No, but when you boot your system to you get any sort of splash screen that displays a RAID configuration?
Yes, I can enter a screen with RAID configuration (Intel Rapid Storage Technology).
It does not let me create or delete RAID volumes. I have a 30G SSD disk marked as "Cache Disk" and a 2TB disk marked as "Non-RAID Disk". The SSD Disk is marked as RAID0(Cached)
You can see the screen here: http://vigna.di.unimi.it/screen.png
Ciao,
seba
On 11/08/13 20:26, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:10 PM, Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko@greshko.com wrote:
Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb".
Does that rings a bell to anybody?
No, but when you boot your system to you get any sort of splash screen that displays a RAID configuration?
Yes, I can enter a screen with RAID configuration (Intel Rapid Storage Technology).
It does not let me create or delete RAID volumes. I have a 30G SSD disk marked as "Cache Disk" and a 2TB disk marked as "Non-RAID Disk". The SSD Disk is marked as RAID0(Cached)
You can see the screen here: http://vigna.di.unimi.it/screen.png
The LITEON LMS-32L is an SSD drive. FWIW, I would try disconnecting it and rebooting to see if that changes anything.
FWIW, the "0" shows as non-RAID so it really should not have any effect.
For whoever buys a Dell XPS 8700 in the future:
- Disable secure boot - Set onboard storage to AHCI instead of RAID; save BIOS settings and reboot - Zero first and last sector of the 2T drive (in my case, /dev/sda:
fdisk -s /dev/sda
This gives the number of sectors
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=(number_of_sectors – 20) bs=1024 count=1024 # slightly more, just to be sure
)
- Install Fedora 19 and be happy (you might have to explicitly reclaim space from /dev/sda, but that's easy from the installer).
Note that the "clean" way
dmraid -r -E /dev/sda
won't work. The installer will die with "error wiping old signatures".
Ciao,
seba
PS: Thanks to Dan Thurman for suggesting Fedora 17: I was able to solve the problem digging the message error given by the installer and chasing links. The fact that newer versions of the installer skip the drives *without any error or warning message* is a regression IMHO.
PPS: I have no idea as to whether the 32GB SSD cache is being used.
On 11/08/2013 04:26 AM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
It does not let me create or delete RAID volumes. I have a 30G SSD disk marked as "Cache Disk" and a 2TB disk marked as "Non-RAID Disk". The SSD Disk is marked as RAID0(Cached)
Look again; the first two options are to create or delete.
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