Re: F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk

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What kind of device/controller are those filesystems on?

They would have to be something weird for anaconda to not have the right driver.

it is not a sdhc/mmc type card is it?



On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 4:02 PM Michael Hennebry
<hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote:
>
> > Typically you have to go full custom and assuming home is on a VG with
> > free space you would then have to create a LV and define a fs on it,
> > and assigned it as root (/).
> >
> > Similar would have to be done with /boot outside of LVM and if efi
> > would you also need a /boot/efi again outside of LVM.
>
> I do not have LVM.
>
> > No harddisk means no harddisk with free space(unpartitioned).  If
> > partitions are unused then you would have to assign them and/or rework
> > them.
> >
> > What does the /home directory/disk look like?  (partition table, lvm
> > setup (if lvm)?)
>
> sda1: 100 M Windows
> sda2: 100 M Id 83
> sda3: 31.6 G  /  Id 83
> sda5:  5.0 G  holds an iso9660 image, won't boot, so settled for DVD
> sda6:  6.0 G /var Id 83
> sda7: 31.7 G /home Id 83
>
> While running as a live OS, F38 can show me .jpg images from /home .
> While supposedly doing an install,
> it claims not to see /dev/sda or any hard drive at all.
>
> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 10:06?AM Michael Hennebry
> > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Stephen Morris wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 6/10/23 13:12, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>>> I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD.
> >>>> On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk.
> >>>> When I tell the installer to install,
> >>>> it claims it cannot find a hard drive.  Grrr.
> >>>>
> >>>> The first time I got the message, I just rebooted.
> >>>> On the second boot, I looked for my home directory and found it.
> >>>> I even looked at some images, so I know it was atually reading files.
> >>>> When I told it to install, no go.
> >>>
> >>> To do the install you have to point the installer at a partition you have
> >>> specified as the root (/) mount point for it to install to. As part of you
> >>
> >> How?
> >> It seems to want me to select from a list,
> >> but the list is empty.
> >> Also a message at the bottom states no hard drive detected.
> >>
> >>> can also point it at your /home partition and tell it that is the /home
> >>> mount point. You may also have to create a 100MB partition for the uefi
> >>> partition if you are installing on a uefi system.
> >>
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