Installation - Does not see the drive.

[ericjchoi]

This is a bit embarrassing. I am trying to install Amahi and I can't get past the basic Fedora install screen to select the hard drive. Basically, no hard drive options show up in the screen, after the password selection. I have verified the install DVD and I have confirmed that in the POST (bios) you can see the hard drive. But for some reason, it is not showing up after the password selection screen.

My machine is a HP Pavilion 700 with 1 Western Digital 120GB IDE hard drive and two optical drives.

Any suggestions?

[bigfoot65]

Not sure what could be the problem. Just because the BIOS sees the drive does not mean the OS does.

Recommend you try to boot with a Live Cd for any distro and check if it sees the drive.

[ericjchoi]

I was able to install a fresh copy of Window XP Service Pack 2 on the same drive. But when I tried it w/ Amahi, it fails to see the drive.

Any thoughts?

[bigfoot65]

Try using a Live CD utility such as GParted to remove all partitions from the drive. Then try installing Fedora 14. That might help.