Linux Mint live can't see my HDD, but Bohdi, Lite, LXLE and Lubuntu do
by Pad0010 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JQXX)
Greetings all,
I really prefer Linux Mint to many of the distros I have listed above.
However, I have ended up installing Lite because uniquely, the Mint Live distro only offers me a chance to install on the live USB source, because it can't see my hard disk. All the others I have been able to install from their live distros.
I am using an 64 bit HP Laptop 15-db0xxx with 1TB of HDD with 500G reserved for Windows 10 and 8G of RAM
I would prefer to use MINT because I have it installed successfully on a couple of other machines. But this has stumped me.
All these other live distros can see the hard disk - I anyone can tell me what is the problem with my Mint distro, and how I might correct it, I would be thankful.
Cheers
Pad0010
Below is the HDPARM report, if that helps.
sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=ST1000LM035-1RK172, FwRev=RTM2, SerialNo=WL1XQ7ZT
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-5,6,7
I really prefer Linux Mint to many of the distros I have listed above.
However, I have ended up installing Lite because uniquely, the Mint Live distro only offers me a chance to install on the live USB source, because it can't see my hard disk. All the others I have been able to install from their live distros.
I am using an 64 bit HP Laptop 15-db0xxx with 1TB of HDD with 500G reserved for Windows 10 and 8G of RAM
I would prefer to use MINT because I have it installed successfully on a couple of other machines. But this has stumped me.
All these other live distros can see the hard disk - I anyone can tell me what is the problem with my Mint distro, and how I might correct it, I would be thankful.
Cheers
Pad0010
Below is the HDPARM report, if that helps.
sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=ST1000LM035-1RK172, FwRev=RTM2, SerialNo=WL1XQ7ZT
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-5,6,7