Ubuntu 9.10 Installation Does Not Detect Hard Drives

[mxc1090]

I can install with 8.04 LTS no problem. It detects both 320GB HDDs. When I try 9.10 (both ubuntu and kubuntu) the partioner scans for them and comes up empty. Opensuse 11.2 RC2 worked with ext4 flawlessly. I don't know what could possibly be the problem. I am going to try the alternate cd tonight, but is this a common problem? I couldn't find any information on this.

BTW...I can view, mount and manipulate the drives from the Live-CD, but when I hit install and it get to the 'select drive' part...nothing shows up.

Thanks.

EDIT: Come to think of it, 9.10-RC1 worked too along with 9.04. hmmm....

EDIT: 11-4; Alternate CD did not detect HDDs
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READ THIS: (2-25-2010)

I do not take credit for this, but if you look through the rest of the thread all of the contributors are here.

Ultimate solution:

Boot up 9.10 Live CD

Open a terminal

type: sudo apt-get remove dmraid

then type "y" then enter

now try to install!

[mxc1090]

bump...need help

[BBUCommander]

Not sure if this will help, but I was having the same problem on my Sager laptop. All previous Ubuntu installers (from 8.04 on) detected my hard drive and its several partitions, while the 9.10 installer did not.

After futzing about, I stumbled upon an accidental solution. Selecting the install option from the initial CD boot menu would result in no detected hard drives. After restarting for the bajillionth time I walked away from the laptop in frustration. Being unattended, the option to "Try Ubuntu" was automatically selected after the timer expired, and so when I came back I was in live-boot Ubuntu. Oddly enough, the hard drives were there! I am perturbed by this since selecting "Install" from the CD boot menu and then cancelling the installation also takes you into a live-boot Ubuntu, giving one the false impression that going into a live-boot directly would do no good.

Hopefully that helps since it is a rather simple solution. Would be interested if others have experienced the same and whether the Ubutnu dev team knows about this.

[recluce]

bump...need help

How can anybody help you, since you provide no details whatsoever?

[mxc1090]

How can anybody help you, since you provide no details whatsoever?

True.


BBUCommander I tried it both ways...no go, but thanks.


Details:

Mobo: gigabyte p35-ds3p
CPU: 2.66 Intel E6750 Core 2
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10(11?) (320gb)Sata2
HDD2: Western Digital WD3200 (320gb)Sata2
Vid: XFX Nvidia 8600gt
Memory: Geil 2x1gb 800mhz

(Note: Hard drives were both in a raid 0 (striping) setup before I removed windows. Since then I deactivated raid on the Mobo and formatted HDDs. I have tried 'dban' to erase the hdds, but that seems to fail wiping them.)

[freackout]

True.


BBUCommander I tried it both ways...no go, but thanks.


Details:

Mobo: gigabyte p35-ds3p
CPU: 2.66 Intel E6750 Core 2
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10(11?) (320gb)Sata2
HDD2: Western Digital WD3200 (320gb)Sata2
Vid: XFX Nvidia 8600gt
Memory: Geil 2x1gb 800mhz

(Note: Hard drives were both in a raid 0 (striping) setup before I removed windows. Since then I deactivated raid on the Mobo and formatted HDDs. I have tried 'dban' to erase the hdds, but that seems to fail wiping them.)

ive had a bit of fun with raid drives similar to you however i found that some installers similar to ubuntu debian ect, are not all the same at automatically picking up these alterations ie when you de activate the raid using many differing methods ( ie dynamic drives lvm's partitions ect), however i found the suse install disks where most helpfull, other times i got one drive back but not the other, which seemed a little confusing. switching off the electric after the partitioning, silly but it helps. then putting my fav ubuntu back on. yep experimentation with hdd programmes sometimes works 4 you. also try pmagic 4.5 thats good.

[Mi11z]

How can anybody help you, since you provide no details whatsoever?

lol is all i can help you out with regarding this subject.

[ario]

rampage
we are glad that you are so happy with you installation

[brc816]

I followed Ginsu543's recommendations to the letter, and they worked for me, too. Previously, I had a VERY bitter experience wherein I somehow managed to lose the partition table of my 250GB USB drive, which was very painful since I use it to boot various Linux distros that I install for testing, etc.

My customary practice is to install a test system onto a single partition on the drive, which is usually about 50GB. I have a GRUB (not GRUB2) installed on that spindle's MBR and from there, the grub.conf/menu.lst dispatches to the GRUB installed on the distro-specific partition. Whether this is the Best Practice or not is irrelevant - it works for me, I understand it, and can deal with strange problems as needed.

So, in this case, I booted one of the other distros, used it to (re-)format the partition I'd designated for Ubuntu, using ext3, and then shut it down, and rebooted the system with the Ubuntu installation CD. Everything went well - I made sure to, despite the vociferous objections from the installer, have GRUB2 installed on Ubuntu's partition (/dev/sdc7) only. After the installation CD completed its work and signified that it was time to reboot, I did so, and everything came up perfectly!

[Ownager]

I can install with 8.04 LTS no problem. It detects both 320GB HDDs. When I try 9.10 (both ubuntu and kubuntu) the partioner scans for them and comes up empty. Opensuse 11.2 RC2 worked with ext4 flawlessly. I don't know what could possibly be the problem. I am going to try the alternate cd tonight, but is this a common problem? I couldn't find any information on this.

BTW...I can view, mount and manipulate the drives from the Live-CD, but when I hit install and it get to the 'select drive' part...nothing shows up.

Thanks.

EDIT: Come to think of it, 9.10-RC1 worked too along with 9.04. hmmm....

Hi, I am familiar with your issue. You will need to burn ubuntu 9.10 iso into a cd first before you read my quote in my thread. I am sure that it will help you to solve this problem. I found a trick. It's helpful.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1283579

Read my quote from my last post.

Cheers!