There was no option in the BIOS for setting raid. I ended up using gparted to do it. It was strange though, gparted originally failed with an error when I tried to delete the partition, but it ended up deleting it anyway. I was then able to see the disk in the installer.
Paolo On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM Stephen Morris <steve.morris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/1/25 11:21, Terry Polzin wrote: > > I'm with @Joe Zeff here, wipe out the disk with gparted from a live > image of your choice of desktop > > > If as Francis said, the bios has the disk configured for raid instead of > ahci then removing the partitions with gparted is not going to help, nor is > reformatting them with gparted going to help. From experience, with the > motherboard bios accessing the disks via a raid controller in raid mode, > even if a disk is configured via the bios raid interface as not being part > of a raid array, the Fedora Desktop installer cannot see any disks, which > is why on my previous motherboard where I was using raid 10, I had to > install windows with Fedora being run in a vm, instead of the other way > around which is what I wanted. With that bios setup, I had to use bios > facilities to generate raid drivers onto a usb so that I could install them > as part of the windows installation method before even Windows could see > the disks to install to, and, research I did on the net at the time > indicated that only Fedora Server could install to hardware raid, Fedora > Desktop did not have the capability. > > regards, > Steve > > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM Stephen Morris <steve.morris...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 12/1/25 05:27, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >> > Hi. >> > >> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:01:40 -0800 Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> > >> >> I have an HP laptop running Windows that I want to re-install with >> F41. I >> >> boot from the dvd and start the installer. However when I try to >> select >> >> the disk the installer says "No disks detected". >> > I think you should modify the BIOS to change SATA Operation from RAID >> > to AHCI. >> >> If your laptop is running raid you will need to disable that as Francis >> said. Fedora Desktop has never been able to install to a hardware raid >> device only Fedora Server has had that capability, particularly if even >> for windows to install to the raid disks you need to load raid drivers >> at windows install time, which I had to do on a previous system I had >> where I wanted to run Raid 10 via the motherboard built in functionality. >> >> regards, >> Steve >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >> > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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