Bootup fails: Warning: /dev/disk/... does not exist

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Hi there,

I’ve started my laptop w/ f39 today and after a few minutes the same error message appeared:

Warning: /dev/disk/... does not exist

What I’ve tried so far:

  • started Fedora 39 XFCE from an USB stick.

  • in Gparted the one and only disk is the USB drive

  • when I’m trying to install Fedora the only available drive during the install process is the USB drive

  • lsblk -o +UUID provides the following result:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS         UUID
loop0         7:0    0  1.5G  1 loop                     
loop1         7:1    0    6G  1 loop                     adfa4094-4283-474e-91ad-331d4ead9ca3
├─live-rw   253:0    0    6G  0 dm   /                   adfa4094-4283-474e-91ad-331d4ead9ca3
└─live-base 253:1    0    6G  1 dm                       adfa4094-4283-474e-91ad-331d4ead9ca3
loop2         7:2    0   32G  0 loop                     
└─live-rw   253:0    0    6G  0 dm   /                   adfa4094-4283-474e-91ad-331d4ead9ca3
sda           8:0    1 29.3G  0 disk                     2023-11-01-01-22-57-00
├─sda1        8:1    1  1.6G  0 part /run/initramfs/live 2023-11-01-01-22-57-00
├─sda2        8:2    1 11.6M  0 part                     870D-0C07
└─sda3        8:3    1  300K  0 part                     
zram0       252:0    0    8G  0 disk [SWAP]

The installed SSD should be around 2TB. But I don’t see such a size in the list above.

Do you have any advice how I could at least rescue my data or has the SSD died?

Thanks.