I just bought an Acer Aspire 5 A515. It has a 1000 GB SDD. There is no OS on it. I want to install Ubuntu 20.04.
In the F2 setup ("InsydeH20 Setup Utility"), in the "Boot" menu, the
only option in the Boot Mode is UEFI (so it cannot be changed to BIOS /
legacy mode).
What irritated me is that the only boot device in the Boot
priority order is UEFI_SHELL, the SSD is not listed there. But in the "Information" page, the "HDD1 Model name" is Intel SSDPEKNW010T8, and this seems to be a 1TB SSD, so it seems to be i a way detected in the Setup.
I built a initial Ubuntu boot image on a USB stick with Rufus. This was successfully detected in the F12 boot menu, and I could start the installation.
However, when I had to choose the device on which to install the OS, only the USB device was there.
I started an Ubuntu Live system (Try Ubuntu) and tried several things I found on the internet and proposed by the commenters:
Disks only sees the usb device (the stick) (and a loop device, i assume created by the ubuntu live system)
gparted only sees the usb stick
lsblk only lists one disk sda, which is the usb stick (and loop devices, i assume created by the ubuntu live system)
sudo lshw -class disk also only lists /dev/sda, which is the usb stick
sudo fdisk -l only lists the usb stick and the loop devices
So the SSD is never shown. Ubuntu does not see it.
Does that mean there is an issue with the hardware?
Or can UEFI responsible for that? Can I make the SSD visible by changing a setting in the F2 setup?
