Comment 6 for bug 1062625

Yes, I noticed that. I would say there was, indeed, a raid install: this machine comes with a small (39G SSD); one of the original partitions on the SATA was around 39G, and IIRC, it had what looked like a Windows install (see below for a dmesg fragment from now).

So, I am guessing Dell raided the SSD and this small partition; it happened that something in the installer did not like it.

It *is* an interesting idea, though, to explore this small SSD.

For rebooting with the install media... Not a chance, anymore. The original Dell install was scratched.

[ 0.948367] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 0.948390] ata2: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[ 0.948409] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 0.949310] ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[ 0.949314] ata2.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 0.949316] ata2.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 0.949556] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[ 0.949562] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 0.949564] ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 0.949731] ata2.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG SSD PM830 mSATA 32GB, CXM12D1Q, max UDMA/133
[ 0.949739] ata2.00: 62533296 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[ 0.950408] ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[ 0.950412] ata2.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 0.950414] ata2.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 0.950639] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS545050A7E380, GG2OA7A0, max UDMA/133
[ 0.950654] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[ 0.950827] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 0.951625] ata5.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GU60N, A103, max UDMA/133
[ 0.951796] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:00 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[ 0.951805] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:00 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 0.951811] ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:00 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
[ 0.952743] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 0.952932] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 0.952938] scsi 0:0:0:0: >Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HTS54505 GG2O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 0.953117] sd 0:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 0.953121] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 0.953123] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 0.953259] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] Write Protect is off
[ 0.953263] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 0.953340] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 0.956310] usb 1-1: >new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 1.049923] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
[ 1.050929] sd 0:0:0:0: >[sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.051078] scsi 1:0:0:0: >Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SSD PM83 CXM1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.051194] sd 1:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 1.051198] sd 1:0:0:0: >[sdb] 62533296 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
[ 1.051330] sd 1:0:0:0: >[sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1.051333] sd 1:0:0:0: >[sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.051384] sd 1:0:0:0: >[sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.052084] sdb: sdb1
[ 1.052284] sd 1:0:0:0: >[sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.055067] scsi 4:0:0:0: >CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU60N A103 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.058080] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/8x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.058084] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.058293] sr 4:0:0:0: >Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 1.058381] sr 4:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5