For whoever buys a Dell XPS 8700 in the future:
- Disable secure boot
- Set onboard storage to AHCI instead of RAID; save BIOS settings and reboot
- Zero first and last sector of the 2T drive (in my case, /dev/sda:
fdisk -s /dev/sda
This gives the number of sectors
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda b
On 8 Nov 2013, at 1:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that
>> the "Disk sda, sdb contain BIOS RAID metadata, but are not part of any
>> recognized BIOS RAID set. Ignoring disks sda, sdb".
>>
>> Does that rings a bell to anybody?
On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:49 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Try LiveCD Fedora 17, do minimal install to your
> root and boot partition. fedup to 18, then fedup
> to 19. Anaconda F18+ does not work for me.
Interesting suggestion: it didn't work, but at least I got the message that the
"Disk sda, sdb contain
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> 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.
Oh, an important thing. I can happily see the drives with fdisk. I opened them
and removed th
On 7 Nov 2013, at 11:19 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 02:05 PM, Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
> 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.
It's included in this m
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
