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

[iru]

Phillip,

This is the end of this thread, but just to know where things are
heading......

With Linux on about 40% of the HDD and the SDD totaly unused I tackled the Realtek driver problem.
Found a good link on the web and built and installed the required driver. All good, wifi up and going.

Next the screwed up screen on boot. Searched and read, update the grub
config with a "nomodeset".

Rebooted, woops a quick flash of mint somewhere across the screen and then all blank.
Blank, blank, blank.
Tried the recovery mode from the bootup menu, much the same.

Well that Linux setup was only an interim measure until I worked the
disc space out......

Booted off the USB and started to clean out the discs. Removed windows, 450G on the hdd available.
Cleaned out the ssd. 32G available. Allocated 30 as a root partition, 2 as swap.

Into the ubiquity install process. Picked the partitions on the ssd,
through time zones, keyboards, etc.

Copying files, configuring hardware, configuring hardware...... 
It has been over 30 minutes and we are still configuring hardware.

Methinks something is not kosher.......

Rebooted off the USB.
Tried the ubiquity install again, through the configuring hardware, onwards, onwards......
Complaint about errors restoring previous applications but reboot, etc.

Remove the USB flash

Therefore boot off the ssd. Woops error: no such partition grub
rescue......

All down hill from there.....

Time to go and sit with the wife and watch the football, discouraged, I
thought I had it worked out.

Ian

Had a look at the bios, the raid has gone away and it displays the ssd
disk and the hdd. Otherwise nothing significant.

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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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