Folks, I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with F41. I boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to select the disk the installer says "No disks detected". However, I start up a terminal and run fdisk -l and it shows there is a device /dev/nvme1n1 which is a 953 GiB drive with a disklabel type as dos. What do I need to do to allow the installer to see the drive?
Paolo
Hi.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote:
I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with F41. I boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to select the disk the installer says "No disks detected".
I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI.
On 12/1/25 05:27, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote:
I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with F41. I boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to select the disk the installer says "No disks detected".
I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI.
If your laptop is running raid you will need to disable that as Francis said. Fedora Desktop has never been able to install to a hardware raid device only Fedora Server has had that capability, particularly if even for windows to install to the raid disks you need to load raid drivers at windows install time, which I had to do on a previous system I had where I wanted to run Raid 10 via the motherboard built in functionality.
regards, Steve
I'm with @Joe Zeff here, wipe out the disk with gparted from a live image of your choice of desktop
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM Stephen Morris steve.morris.au@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/25 05:27, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote:
I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with
F41. I
boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to select the disk the installer says "No disks detected".
I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI.
If your laptop is running raid you will need to disable that as Francis said. Fedora Desktop has never been able to install to a hardware raid device only Fedora Server has had that capability, particularly if even for windows to install to the raid disks you need to load raid drivers at windows install time, which I had to do on a previous system I had where I wanted to run Raid 10 via the motherboard built in functionality.
regards, Steve
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On 12/1/25 11:21, Terry Polzin wrote:
I'm with @Joe Zeff here, wipe out the disk with gparted from a live image of your choice of desktop
If as Francis said, the bios has the disk configured for raid instead of ahci then removing the partitions with gparted is not going to help, nor is reformatting them with gparted going to help. From experience, with the motherboard bios accessing the disks via a raid controller in raid mode, even if a disk is configured via the bios raid interface as not being part of a raid array, the Fedora Desktop installer cannot see any disks, which is why on my previous motherboard where I was using raid 10, I had to install windows with Fedora being run in a vm, instead of the other way around which is what I wanted. With that bios setup, I had to use bios facilities to generate raid drivers onto a usb so that I could install them as part of the windows installation method before even Windows could see the disks to install to, and, research I did on the net at the time indicated that only Fedora Server could install to hardware raid, Fedora Desktop did not have the capability.
regards, Steve
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM Stephen Morris steve.morris.au@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/25 05:27, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with F41. I >> boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to select >> the disk the installer says "No disks detected". > I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID > to AHCI. If your laptop is running raid you will need to disable that as Francis said. Fedora Desktop has never been able to install to a hardware raid device only Fedora Server has had that capability, particularly if even for windows to install to the raid disks you need to load raid drivers at windows install time, which I had to do on a previous system I had where I wanted to run Raid 10 via the motherboard built in functionality. regards, Steve -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
There was no option in the BIOS for setting raid. I ended up using gparted to do it. It was strange though, gparted originally failed with an error when I tried to delete the partition, but it ended up deleting it anyway. I was then able to see the disk in the installer.
Paolo
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM Stephen Morris steve.morris.au@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/25 11:21, Terry Polzin wrote:
I'm with @Joe Zeff here, wipe out the disk with gparted from a live image of your choice of desktop
If as Francis said, the bios has the disk configured for raid instead of ahci then removing the partitions with gparted is not going to help, nor is reformatting them with gparted going to help. From experience, with the motherboard bios accessing the disks via a raid controller in raid mode, even if a disk is configured via the bios raid interface as not being part of a raid array, the Fedora Desktop installer cannot see any disks, which is why on my previous motherboard where I was using raid 10, I had to install windows with Fedora being run in a vm, instead of the other way around which is what I wanted. With that bios setup, I had to use bios facilities to generate raid drivers onto a usb so that I could install them as part of the windows installation method before even Windows could see the disks to install to, and, research I did on the net at the time indicated that only Fedora Server could install to hardware raid, Fedora Desktop did not have the capability.
regards, Steve
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM Stephen Morris steve.morris.au@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/25 05:27, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote:
I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with
F41. I
boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to
select
the disk the installer says "No disks detected".
I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI.
If your laptop is running raid you will need to disable that as Francis said. Fedora Desktop has never been able to install to a hardware raid device only Fedora Server has had that capability, particularly if even for windows to install to the raid disks you need to load raid drivers at windows install time, which I had to do on a previous system I had where I wanted to run Raid 10 via the motherboard built in functionality.
regards, Steve
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