VAIO intel i7 Ivy Bridge ultrabook installation fail: Disks not found

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Nicolas Alexander Scheibling <n.scheibling at gmx.ch> writes:

> As it stands now, I would absolutely love installing some 10-CURRENT on
> my newly acquired SONY VAIO ultrabook. AFAIK powered by Ivy Bridge ULV,
> 1.9 - 2.3 GHz. It has an additional SATA 32 GB Samsung SSD and a
> regular 500 GB HDD. It comes with Win 8, cannot stand the Metro.
> (although Elan Touchscreen is nice).
>
> I installed world from my old-beater AMD box on a USB pen drive (i386).
> Now it loads the kernel, but won't let me mount any root file systems.
> Looks like the platter isn't detected at all. Is that a common problem
> with Ivy Bridge systems?

I have a Vaio Ultrabook with similar specs and am currently running
10-CURRENT on it.

Please provide more details, such as what messages are you getting etc.
Have you also tried a fresh install from a CD or USB stick?

> Is it a deliberate chipset flaw by Intel as in *this low-end lappy is
> not allowed to run anything else than WIN* or can I do something about
> it?

I wouldn't call an i7 low-end...