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daemondeal

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Registered: 2022-08-13

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fdisk -l cannot see NVMe SSD during arch installation [SOLVED]

When I try to install Arch from the bootable USB on my ThinBook G2 ARE, I can only see the USB when searching for disks to partition, both using fdisk -l and cfdisk.
I've seen other threads, and the solution for them was either to disable Intel VMD (Which I don't have, my laptop is an AMD machine), or to change the AHCI mode of the drive, which I cannot seem to be able to do using my UEFI software, unless I'm missing something obvious.
Is there something else that I can try?

Last edited by daemondeal (2022-08-14 09:29:12)

cyberchild

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Re: fdisk -l cannot see NVMe SSD during arch installation [SOLVED]

Heyy!!..

I'm a noob with arch, but from my experience with linux, I'd suggest you to try the following as root:

lsblk

This would display details about block devices along with file-system type in a tree-structure.

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0 800.5G  0 part 
├─sda2        8:2    0  15.7G  0 part 
└─sda3        8:3    0 115.2G  0 part /
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   300M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   128M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 237.2G  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   900M  0 part

Personally, I feel cfdisk gives a more visual feel of what I'm doing, so I recommend using cfdisk.

after you obtain this information about your connected devices, you have their names (nvme, sda, etc.)

If you just execute cfdisk it would default to the disk which has the most amount of free space.

So, execute cfdisk with the name of the block device you want to partition:

Note: block device address would always follow /dev/(block_device_name)

Suppose, you want to partition nvme0n1 (o/p from $lsblk) you'd enter the following

cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1

Last edited by cyberchild (2022-08-13 15:42:01)

daemondeal

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Registered: 2022-08-13

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Re: fdisk -l cannot see NVMe SSD during arch installation [SOLVED]

As it turns out, I'm dumb and wasn't watching for /dev/nvme0n1, expecting it to be the regular /dev/sda. Cfdisk for some reason wasn't detecting it by default, but by asking it directly to use it it worked (by using cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1). Thanks for the help!