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Hi
Trying to upgrade my laptop with a new SSD; the idea is to install a brand new lithium on it
Laptop is a Dell Latitude E6540
SSD is a 1To Crucial BX500 SSD (SATA 6gb/s, 5V, 1.7A)
when I get to the partition of the disk, it only shows my SD card, from which i am running the installer (for the info., I'm coming from here (last post))
So before posting here, i searched the web but could not come up with a solution that worked for me;
In boot mode i chose
- the plain boot from SD option
- the UEFI boot option
I played with the sata mode, initially set to raid, I tried ATA, AHCI... but the SSD is not discovered...
Has anyone met this issue before / can anybody assist me please
Thanks a lot
beng
Last edited by beng (2022-10-06 10:41:57)
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Is the SSD so new it doesn't have a partition table? Maybe that why it doesn't show.
Set SATA Mode to AHCI.
Use:
https://gparted.org/
to create a GPT partition table.
Use Ventoy to create a multi boot thumb drive with several tools like gparted on it.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Additionally
Here you would need to provide some relevant information.
from the live system - beryllium preferred (lithium is not new).
1. inxi -Fzx
2. parted -l
You bring the ISO to the stick with dd.
An SD card complicates the installation process.
Installation in cli-expert-mode.
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Doh! Good point; the disk is brand new, out of the box!
Let me check that after i'm finished walking the dogs; i could use gparted from my current installation
i checked my bios again in light of further readings re. "exotic" dell options but it looks right...
Thanks for the ventoy recommendation, been looking for something like this for some time!
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Usually a brand new SSD doesn't have a partition table set up OOTB so using a tool like gparted can initialize the SSD so that the BIOS can detect it.
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Hi
@eight.bit.al & @DeepDayze: indeed the issue was the disk did not have an initial partition table! I set one up with Gparted under my lithium system and that got it recognized by the installer (SATA mode set to AHCI).
You bring the ISO to the stick with dd.
@unklar - i indeed copied the iso to the card in DD but still encountered the issue my cdrom was not detected and solved it as explained here, post #13
and I'm now running Beryllium beta on my new SSD!
Thanks all for your help!
Last edited by beng (2022-10-05 10:43:45)
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@beng
Congratulations!
Have fun with [beryllium].
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