Re: [orca-list] Linux does not see the internal SSD on my laptop/what to do...

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi,

So what command do you give fdisk or gidsk? Why do you believe it's a
correct command? Have you checked devices present in /dev? With lspci?

Example: If it's an nvme drive, it would likely be listed something
like:

/dev/nvme0n1

Though an ssd would indeed come up as:

/dev/sda

While you're booted with a thumb drive linux, what does lsblk show?

Lastly, have you paged through the output of dmesg?

hth

Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> Sorry for going OT here, but many of you know who I am and know I would much
> prefer to be using one or more Linux distros for 98-99% of my work and play
> as I have most of the last 10 years rather than being stuck in windows or
> the limited Linux one can run from win10 run box.
>
> I bought a new computer for the 2nd time in my life  around the 1st of
> December of 2018. After getting sighted help to work with bios settings to
> enable booting from USB pendrives, set function keys to work as such and
> following instructions re secure boot to install Linux I shut her down and
> plugged in a thumb drive with either Vinux 5.1 or Ubuntu 16.04 on it.
>
> Sadly although I could indeed boot in to different Linux distros, arch, at
> least three flavors of Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04, gnome or mate version of
> these as well as the standard Unity desktop release; and something else that
> slips my mind now, I could never see the internal harddrive; not with
> gparted, gdisk, fdisk the installers for the Ubuntu versions, etc. I asked
> on HP support forum butg only got suggestions to update my bios and drivers
> which I did.
>
> Please, what can I do so that a live Linux system can see the laptop's SSD.
>
> The laptop is an HP envy X360 convertible, made and sold in late 2018. It
> has both a touch screen and keyboard. The hardware is all good medium scale
> stuff, and all and all it's by far the best machine I've ever owned.
>
> To sum up it lets me start via Linux on a  USB pendrive, but won't expose
> the internal SSD so that I can install Linux ordo anything from Linux, i.e.
> run a malware scan, resize partitions, etc.
>
> I have updated the bios and any drivers available on the HP website, but my
> problem persists.
>
> What to do? I want to leave win10  and set up a dual boot system, but could
> not wipe windows from the drive as things stand with out removing it from
> the laptop and I want to keep windows for the rare jobs that don't have
> fully accessible ways to do them yet in Linux.
>
> Any suggestions would be more than well received here. I got to get back to
> playing with the Penguins.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> B.H.
>
>
> Live free or die!, ... (windows is killing me)
>
>
>
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Janina Sajka
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures     http://www.w3.org/wai/apa