elementaryos Problem with installation

[Tesohh]

I have an Asus laptop (more specifically Zenbook pro 14) and I wanted to install elementary os. When I boot a usb drive with the iso everything works fine until the partition selection. The installer only sees the usb drive and not the pc disk! What can I do?

[jj9987]

What kind of internal disk do you have? SATA HDD, SATA SSD, M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe?

[Juular]

Either your disk are GPT partitioned and you boot MBR image or it's vice versa.

[Tesohh]

23 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

What kind of internal disk do you have? SATA HDD, SATA SSD, M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe?

M.2 Pcie gen 3 x4 NVMe

[Tesohh]

10 minutes ago, Juular said:

Either your disk are GPT partitioned and you boot MBR image or it's vice versa.

Can you please explain?

[Juular]

1 minute ago, Tesohh said:

Can you please explain?

There're two types of disk partitioning, older MBR (Master boot record) and newer GPT (GUID partition table). Modern Windows versions use GPT by default so if you've partitioned this disk before it's most likely GPT. Now i'm not sure how prevalent GPT support among Linux distributives but it most likely supported, you'll just need to boot the image as through UEFI, there should be two options in the boot selection screen, one for Legacy and one for UEFI.

[Tesohh]

24 minutes ago, Juular said:

Either your disk are GPT partitioned and you boot MBR image or it's vice versa.

10 minutes ago, Juular said:

you'll just need to boot the image as through UEFI, there should be two options in the boot selection screen, one for Legacy and one for UEFI.

And how do I do that? With the usb drive?

 

[Juular]

See, when you restart the PC there should be an option to press key to enter boot menu, usually it's F12, F10, F8 or ESC. Now if your image supports UEFI and it's enabled in BIOS (if you've formatted your drive to GPT with Windows then you have it enabled) you can select either legacy boot option or UEFI one, it'll be indicated like that.

[Juular]

If you have access to another Windows PC you can partition this disk to MBR also.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-gpt-disk-into-an-mbr-disk

[Tesohh]

20 minutes ago, Juular said:

See, when you restart the PC there should be an option to press key to enter boot menu, usually it's F12, F10, F8 or ESC. Now if your image supports UEFI and it's enabled in BIOS (if you've formatted your drive to GPT with Windows then you have it enabled) you can select either legacy boot option or UEFI one, it'll be indicated like that.

What do I need to format? The boot disk or the usb drive?

[Juular]

Just now, Tesohh said:

What do I need to format? The boot disk or the usb drive?

You need to format the usb drive with Elementary OS image with UEFI mode.

As in this guide (with Rufus), just using Elementary OS image instead of Windows one :

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Creating_Windows_UEFI_Boot-Stick_in_Windows

[Ralphred]

Linux DGAF if you use MBR or GPT previously, both partition table formats are supported by parted and fdisk, the disk should still show.

It's more likely that the version 4 kernel doesn't have the drivers for your disk, or there is an oversight in the installer.

 

Grab a minimal install disk for another distro, check your drive shows with a modern kernel, then either use that or poke Elementary tech support.

[Tesohh]

6 minutes ago, Ralphred said:

Linux DGAF if you use MBR or GPT previously, both partition table formats are supported by parted and fdisk, the disk should still show.

It's more likely that the version 4 kernel doesn't have the drivers for your disk, or there is an oversight in the installer.

 

Grab a minimal install disk for another distro, check your drive shows with a modern kernel, then either use that or poke Elementary tech support.

It doesn't work with other distros too

[Tesohh]

8 minutes ago, Juular said:

You need to format the usb drive with Elementary OS image with UEFI mode.

As in this guide (with Rufus), just using Elementary OS image instead of Windows one :

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Creating_Windows_UEFI_Boot-Stick_in_Windows

I used rufus

[Ralphred]

But it's a working disk with an OS on it now?

[Tesohh]

1 minute ago, Tesohh said:

I used rufus

But I'll try with the site's method if it's different from what I did

[Tesohh]

1 minute ago, Ralphred said:

But it's a working disk with an OS on it now?

Yes, windows 10

[Ralphred]

10 minutes ago, Tesohh said:

It doesn't work with other distros too

What did you try?

You need to try something non-ubuntu based (ideally with a version 5 kernel), then work backwards from there.

[Tesohh]

13 minutes ago, Ralphred said:

What did you try?

You need to try something non-ubuntu based (ideally with a version 5 kernel), then work backwards from there.

I tried deepin

[Tesohh]

28 minutes ago, Tesohh said:

But I'll try with the site's method if it's different from what I did

I used that method but nothing happened