I am trying to install nixos with the USB stick on a notebook. I have a 500 GB SSD in the computer. On the first partition is a Windows 10 and on the second partition I wanted to install NIXOS. Unfortunately, the NIXOS installer does not recognize the hard drive or partition. It shows only the stick on /dev/sda. Others like /dev/sdb or so I have not found.
cat /proc/partitions does not give me more information.
This is what the partition looks like under Windows 10:
I haven’t heard of a driver issue with SSDs on Linux, but possibly that could be it.
Another thing that might be causing it is the SSD being in some special Intel RAID mode (you’d have to check in bios for that), I forgot how it was called. It’s a setting in bios with a value of “raid” if it’s enabled.
Thank you very much. I actually had “Raid On” enabled in the SATA operations. I have now set off “AHCI” and it seems to recognize the hard drive with the NIXOS installer. Means only unfortunately that my Windows 10 no longer starts and I have to reinstall that too. But is not quite so bad, because the Windows I had also just reinstalled on it.