On 2017-05-09 09:06, Carl Hartung wrote:
Hi John,
I suspect there may be deeper issues going on with that specific (circa 2012) laptop. The initial clue you provided is the USB booted and running installer not being able to 'see' the primary drive.
From the Internets:
"... Hmm. I have a brand-new Samsung laptop NP700Z7C-S01US that has a flash drive described in the specs along with the main HD as "1 TB with ExpressCache™ Technology, 8GB". It shows in both Windows and suse as a separate hard drive. I've made no effort to use it myself. ..."
and
"Just found more info on the Samsung website:
"Innovative ExpressCache™* technology provides 8GB of flash memory on the motherboard that works as an ultra fast HDD. Its intelligent, automatic caching takes 45% less time to boot up and starts Internet Explorer and frequently used applications 2 times faster, while still maintaining the safety and integrity of your data."
Oh. Good catch. Bad news :-( John also said it on his first post: ]> I get sda, sdb, and sdc, which I ]> take to be the hard drive, Samsung's 8G internal flash openSUSE can not install using that internal flash at all. Where to place the boot code? On the hard disk, or on that internal flash memory? We need some knowhow. The paragraph is confusing, though: ]> I get sda, sdb, and sdc, which I ]> take to be the hard drive, Samsung's 8G internal flash, and the 16G ]> USB flash drive it just booted from. However, the install selection ]> can't see the USB flash and the "boot from hard drive" can't find a ]> bootable hard drive at all (W10 boots reliably from the hard drive). What is that "USB flash" that it can not see? There should only be three media: internal hard disk, internal flash, and external install media. Guessing, the internal hard disk may have 4 primary partitions defined, which impedes automatic Linux installation. Thus the install disk will not try to install, doesn't know how. A run of lsblk --output \ NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,ALIGNMENT,HOTPLUG maybe from a linux rescue disk, and posted here (or a photo of the output) would help. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)