Installer not seeing hard drive
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:57 pm
OK, so I decided to see if I could get 2.1 onto my old Dell notebook. I had bought one of those IDE/Sata to usb adaptors, and after finally getting it to work, I was unable to install directly to the laptop due to lack of USB boot up support.
Plan B.. removed HDD from laptop, pseudo-usb drive hooked to PC, fired PC up with 2.1 LiveDVD. The HDD (which I previously formatted a partition for the install) is even automounted, awesome! This should be easy, right?
Um.. no.. the installer (or the partition editor) does NOT see that particular drive or partition..
Can I get the partition recognized.. I cant see why its not if its mounted and available....
/dev/sdc is the actual HDD in question.. partiton editor doesnt show it on the list, only the other 2 sata drives..
Plan B.. removed HDD from laptop, pseudo-usb drive hooked to PC, fired PC up with 2.1 LiveDVD. The HDD (which I previously formatted a partition for the install) is even automounted, awesome! This should be easy, right?
Um.. no.. the installer (or the partition editor) does NOT see that particular drive or partition..
Can I get the partition recognized.. I cant see why its not if its mounted and available....
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc /dev/sdc2
/dev/sda3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc3
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
/dev/sdc is the actual HDD in question.. partiton editor doesnt show it on the list, only the other 2 sata drives..