Hello.
I’m having trouble with an inherited Acer Aspire 3 A315-56 laptop.
When booting from the Fedora 41 XFCE spin live USB the internal SDD disk does not show up with fdisk nor parted.
After changing the BIOS config to AHCI and disabling secure boot (neither if which did help) I found a solution in another forum: boot from the live USB, run
sudo systemctl suspend
and after resuming with the power button the internal disk appears:
liveuser@localhost-live:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb print free
Model: ATA GOLDEN MEMORY-51 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 512GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
17.4kB 1049kB 1031kB Free Space
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 538MB 1612MB 1074MB ext4 bls_boot
3 1612MB 498GB 497GB ext4
4 498GB 512GB 14.0GB linux-swap(v1) swap
512GB 512GB 335kB Free Space
After thet I could install the OS but after installation completed successfully it does not boot, ever. So I found a solution for Arch which consist in suspending and resuming at boot time before the FSs are mounted: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Acer#Aspire_3_A315-56_internal_storage_not_showing_up
The problem is I don’t know how to do it in Fedora. That’s the help I ask: teach me how to do this please.
If any other information is needed just ask.
Thanks in advance.
Nicolas.