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 bs=1024 count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=(number_of_sectors – 20) bs=1024 count=1024 # slightly more, just to be sure ) - Install Fedora 19 and be happy (you might have to explicitly reclaim space from /dev/sda, but that's easy from the installer). Note that the "clean" way dmraid -r -E /dev/sda won't work. The installer will die with "error wiping old signatures". Ciao, seba PS: Thanks to Dan Thurman for suggesting Fedora 17: I was able to solve the problem digging the message error given by the installer and chasing links. The fact that newer versions of the installer skip the drives *without any error or warning message* is a regression IMHO. PPS: I have no idea as to whether the 32GB SSD cache is being used. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
