Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10

sp4ced_banana · 2016-09-24 23:32:31

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install Arch on my Windows 10 laptop (Dell Precision 5510). I made a 50Gb partition and just left it unallocated, I burned an Arch disk image on a USB stick using Rufus and then restarted to use USB as installation media ( I've disabled secure boot, deactivated the TPM, turned off quick startup).
Now I boot into Arch and am ready to make filesystems left and right but a quick gdisk -l /dev/sda check to see if I can see the partition I made comes back negative. I only see the the 8Gb of the USB in all its glory. I cd into /dev and there's no sdb directory, just sda.

Any ideas on why Arch cannot see the unallocated 50Gb partition I made in Windows? Am I formatting the USB wrong? Plz help.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-09-25 16:15:02

From the live ISO environment, please post the output of:

parted -l

Rather than typing it out or posting a screenshot, you can use a pastebin client to generate a URL that can be posted here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … in_clients

sp4ced_banana · 2016-09-26 19:13:34

Thanks for the pastebin suggestion but I had some trouble setting up internet connection from the ISO environment. Here's the output of parted -l:

Model: Generic Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 8243MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 8243MB 8242MB primary fat32 boot,lba

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-09-26 20:29:29

How strange, perhaps the driver needed for your storage device is not available in the mainline kernel yet.

This is just a wild guess though

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#1 2016-09-24 23:32:31

Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10

#2 2016-09-25 16:15:02

Re: Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10

#3 2016-09-26 19:13:34

Re: Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10

#4 2016-09-26 20:29:29

Re: Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10

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