Fedora 19 does not see hard disks on a Dell XPS 8700

[Rejy M Cyriac]

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_testing

- rejy (rmc)