Re: Having trouble installing?Post here please.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:17 pmWith thanks to wyndigo for bringing this to our attention.
There is a similar post early in this topic however it does not really mention the solution for Hard drives not being detected on install.
There is a similar post early in this topic however it does not really mention the solution for Hard drives not being detected on install.
This is what I found and it worked for me for the live cd not detecting my hard drives so here you go:
This worked for me Aces to dhavalbbhatt:
Proper credit goes to dhavalbbhatt
Old 1 Day Ago
dhavalbbhatt
Gee! These Aren't Roasted!
Re: Ubuntu Karmic livecd does not detect harddrive.
Quote:
Originally Posted by zzzisgood View Post
Now I attempt install Karmic from live CD, but it still failed to recognize my hard disk. The installation wizard stopped after Prepare Partition page, which showed no disk/partition at all. click forward would prompt No root file system: No root file sytem is defined, please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Can anyone suggest what I should do to proceed, I am totally stuck now
Can you boot using LiveCD? If you can, then boot into the LiveCD environment. In the LiveCD environment, go to System - Administration - Synaptic
Once in Synaptic, search for "dmraid" and mark the first two dmraid packages for complete removal. This method worked for me.