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Old 04-21-2018, 09:00 AM   #16
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Aha - well done Fatmac !
Amen. Good catch!
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Now I've got the keyboard functional, what can I put into Terminal to see if it can recognise the SSD
For a start, type "sudo -i" to get a root shell and then see if "lsblk -af" reveals any "sd" devices besides the CD/DVD.
 
Old 04-21-2018, 09:36 AM   #17
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That returns:

sr0 iso 9660 bla bla cd rom
Loop0 squashfs rofs
 
Old 04-21-2018, 01:03 PM   #18
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Have you tried going into the BIOS setup and changing the SATA interface from AHCI mode to IDE mode?

If you can't do that or it doesn't help, I suppose the next step would be to look at the output from lspci. If there's nothing there that's identified as "SATA controller" or an unidentified device, you'll need to post the full output. There will be more there than you'll want to copy by hand, so save it on a USB flash drive and carry it to the machine you're using for posting. Plug in a USB flash drive with a partition that's formatted with FAT32 or VFAT, then
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mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp
lspci >/mnt/tmp/lspci.txt
umount /mnt/tmp
I'm guessing that the USB drive will show up as "sda" since no disk drives are yer being found. If not, you'll have to adjust that accordingly. Post the content of that file here.
 
Old 04-21-2018, 04:54 PM   #19
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Thanks RK Nichols for your patience.

"I am just going outside and may be some time." As a famous gentleman said!

Formatting the USB to Fat 32 and the Linux machine won't recognise it.

Did the 1spci but couldn't copy to the USB as above.

Photo'd the screen and now this damned W10 won't do a Bluetooth transfer.............Grrrrr.

But I'll be back!

Do I get a medal from the originators of Linux for determination? I've been trying for 18 months to load Linux in 3 different guises, Mint, Bodhi and Lite on 3 different machines and succeeded once ! Haven't got a clue how I managed that.

I'm off for a walk to regain my sanity.

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