Saturday, August 5, 2017

Ubuntu When the Live CD sees the hard disc but the installer does not

Ubuntu When the Live CD sees the hard disc but the installer does not


I tried installing both Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 on a HP machine, and though gparted detected the hard disc properly, the installer didnt see it at all. It seems the hard disc was used in a RAID configuration before and some leftover metadata on it prevented the detection by the installer.

After running the following command in the live sessions terminal, the detection worked as usual:


 sudo dmraid -rE 

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