[Bug 1175402] Re: Failure to find SSD and HDD

[iru]

Phillip,

Chased around and fiddled. Finally rebooted and applied dmraid -r -E.
Cleared flags on two disks.

Continued on with the ubiquity install process. Setup free space and swap space, etc.
Process continued intil it complained about not being able to creat the swap file. Everything. Kill the box and reboot.

Removed the USB flash and came to "no partitions", grub rescue on a
"win7" boot, which is about what I thought may occur.

Plugged the USB back in. Booted up and into the installation process.

Sailed through the install process until choices about what and where to
install.

Chose custom and installed Mint in a new partition and swap space.

All installed OK, up and running and I am using it to look at the disk
environment.

I have used around 40% of the HDD and there are three partitions on the
SSD. No sign of raid anywhere.

So I can probably work my way through things on the disks, re-arrange
partitions on the ssd and the hdd and do a fresh install on the ssd.

Woops, whats this scrambled display after boot, oh dear something about
"nomodeset", can currently get around it by shutting the lid, waits
until things close down then hit the power button. All OK, more
research.

Woops again, no wireless, the realtek drivers are missing, there is an
install and fix process somewhere......

Ithought computers were supposed to be tools to do work, not something
you spend your time working on.

Anyway, thanks again, Ian

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Title:
  Failure to find SSD and HDD

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Gentlefolk,

  I have a Toshiba U840W laptop with a 32G SSD and a 500G HDD. Runs
  win7. Has 200G spare space.

  I have tried to install Ubuntu and MINT off a USB flash. I get the
  same problem in Ubuntu and Mint. Currently have Mint on the USB flash.

  I have:

  1. Updated the BIOS to the latest version. No improvement.

  2. On Mint 14 performed an apt-get install ubiquity and installed 75MB
  of update.

  3. On Mint 14 performed "ubiquity -d".

  The problem is that ubiquity does not see the SSD or the HDD.

  On the first "installation type" screen it reports "no detected
  operating systems" (win7 is installs and boots).

  I choose "something else" and on the second "installation type" screen
  only /dev/sdc USB flash is displayed.

  Any file manager displays displays the directories in the windows partition.
  GParted displays all partitions and unused space on the HDD.

  I will attach log files.

  Any assistance/solutions/direction appreciated, Ian

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