While on a phone call, my running Fedora OS appears to have committed suicide. It shut down, and when I tried to wake it from sleep it was a not-go. Trying a fresh boot, there was a stall at the Fedora screen that was far too long (2-3 minutes?) followed by this:
I followed the instructions and read through about 9 pages of system log, of which I could only make a little sense, but I did get photos of every page. What seemed to be the problem was that some drive was missing. As it turned out that missing drive was my SSD containing the boot, root, and home partitions, among other things.
As I need quickly to get use of my computer back, I decided not to post the problem here but to just reinstall Fedora.
I should mention that yesterday I turn my laptop into a dual boot machine by installing Xubuntu on a couple of partitions created out of space obtained by shrinking my /home partition. It loaded just fine once installed, and so did my Fedoraā¦until this incident today.
When I tried to reinstall Fedora and go to the point where one is given options for setting up the partition(s) for the install (the āInstallation Destinationā screen), I was unable to request a ācustomā storage configuration, and then saw at the bottom of the screen an alert message: āNo disks detectedā¦ā, followed by a request that I shut down the computer and attach a storage disk!
I was disbelieving. I reran the Fedora install attempt, and from the Live disk fired up KDE Partition Manager and it too did not see my laptopās only storage drive, a 512GB SSD.
Here is my full system configuration:
Acer Spin 5 / 15.4GB RAM / 512GB SSD
Operating System: Fedora 33 (Linux) / KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 / Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.9.11-200.fc33.x86_64
Processors: 8 à Intel® Core⢠i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz
Graphics Processor: Mesa IntelĀ® IrisĀ® Plus Graphics
I have never seen this problem before and have absolutely no idea what to do about it.
I will be grateful for any suggestions!