[Nix-dev] Nix OS installation problems - Where's the hard drive?

Alexander Zubkov green at msu.ru
Fri Oct 3 10:44:32 CEST 2014


"lspci -k" will be helpful too. I think the problem is in controller's 
driver module is not loaded for some reason.

On 10/03/2014 11:08 AM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> What does dmesg say, and what is in /proc/partitions?
>
> Also, what kind of hard disk do you have, simple SATA?
>
> Wout.
> On Oct 3, 2014 5:14 AM, "Joseph Joe" <joej at reed.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install Nix OS onto my computer. My computer's optical drive
>> is broken, so I tried installing using a live usb. But when I boot from a
>> live usb, the only recognized harddrive is the usb. So, when I enter the
>> command "fdisk -l", the usb is shown to be mounted on
>> /dev/sda and there are no other entries.
>>
>> On the other hand, I was able to install Ubuntu with no problems and
>> reformat the harddrive. I can partition and modify the harddrive fine in
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> I tried making uefi and legacy boot live usbs for Nix OS, and both have
>> the same problem.
>>
>> Any suggestions and help would be well appreciated
>>
>> -- Joseph Joe
>>
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