DriveSetup not seeing SSD harddrive for installation?

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Hi all,

[Acer Laptop with 2 SSD hard drives (NVMe). First partition on 2nd HD (/dev/nvme1p0) is meant for Haiku; MXLinux & Windows 10 on other partitions. Using uEFI with GPT]

I am trying to install Haiku to my harddrive. There are actually a number of issues:

  1. GParted apparently does not know the BFS file type and cannot create it, so I created a partition without formatting it.
  2. If I use cfdisk (I did not know about gdisk) to set the file type of that partition to Haiku (BeFS), when I reboot with the Haiku USB stick, it freezes on a black screen with a single line message about no bootable partition and scanning hard drives… and nothing. Even Ctl-Alt-Del does not restart the computer. But at least it seems to read something from the hard drive… [I can redo this to get the exact message, if it will help].
  3. The real issue: If I boot from the USB stick without setting the 1st SSD partition as BeFS, it boots into a working live Haiku system (I am writing this from WebPositive). However, when I want to format the 1st partition to BFS in order to install Haiku, it only shows the USB “Cruzer Blade” on which Haiku is already installed!
  • The only relevant part of listdev shows:
    device Mass storage controller (RAID bus controller) [1|4|0]
    vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
    device 9a0b: Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
  • There is no nvme0 or nvme1, nevermind the existing partitions. (I’ll put the whole output of listdev at the end of this message if it will help)
  • I am stumped. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or how to get around this?

Cheers
Chavoux

listdev

device Bridge (Host bridge) [6|0|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a26: 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers

device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a01: 11th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller #1

device Display controller (VGA compatible controller, VGA controller) [3|0|0]
vendor 10de: NVIDIA Corporation
device 25a2: GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile]

device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0]
vendor 10de: NVIDIA Corporation
device 2291: Unknown

device Display controller (VGA compatible controller, VGA controller) [3|0|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a68: TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]

device Signal processing controller [11|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a03: TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant

device Generic system peripheral [8|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a11: GNA Scoring Accelerator module

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, XHCI) [c|3|30]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a17: Tiger Lake-H Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller

device Hub (Unused, Full speed (or root) hub) [9|0|0]
vendor 0000: Unknown
device 0000: Unknown

device Mass storage controller (RAID bus controller) [1|4|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 9a0b: Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller

device Serial bus controller (USB controller, XHCI) [c|3|30]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43ed: Tiger Lake-H USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller

device Hub (Unused, Full speed (or root) hub) [9|0|0]
vendor 0000: Unknown
device 0000: Unknown

  device Mass Storage (SCSI, Bulk-Only) [8|6|50]
    vendor 0781: SanDisk Corp.
    device 5567: Cruzer Blade

  device Human Interface Device (No Subclass, None) [3|0|0]
    vendor 0c45: Microdia
    device 7b06: Unknown

  device Video (Video Streaming) [e|2|0]
    vendor 0408: Quanta Computer, Inc.
    device a061: Unknown

  device Wireless (Radio Frequency, Bluetooth) [e0|1|1]
    vendor 8087: Intel Corp.
    device 0026: AX201 Bluetooth

device Memory controller (RAM memory) [5|0|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43ef: Tiger Lake-H Shared SRAM

device Network controller [2|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43f0: Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi

device Serial bus controller [c|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43e8: Tiger Lake-H Serial IO I2C Controller #0

device Serial bus controller [c|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43e9: Tiger Lake-H Serial IO I2C Controller #1

device Communication controller [7|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43e0: Tiger Lake-H Management Engine Interface

device Generic system peripheral [8|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 09ab: RST VMD Managed Controller

device Bridge (PCI bridge, Normal decode) [6|4|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43bc: Tiger Lake-H PCI Express Root Port #5

device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]
vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
device 2600: Killer E2600 GbE Controller

device Generic system peripheral [8|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 09ab: RST VMD Managed Controller

device Communication controller [7|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43a8: Unknown

device Serial bus controller [c|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43ab: Unknown

device Bridge (ISA bridge) [6|1|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 438b: HM570 LPC/eSPI Controller

device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|80]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43c8: Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller

device Serial bus controller (SMBus) [c|5|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43a3: Tiger Lake-H SMBus Controller

device Serial bus controller [c|80|0]
vendor 8086: Intel Corporation
device 43a4: Tiger Lake-H SPI Controller

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RAID is not supported in Haiku. Maybe your BIOS allows disabling it, and then Haiku will be able to access the disks directly without the RAID layer in betwen?

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