My machine’s bios does not allow me to turn off rst mode.
I followed the directions about editing the windows registry, but that doesn’t affect the bios. I’ve tried magic key sequences such as F5/F6, ctrl-s, etc., and the bios remains subborn. It will not let me change the disk controller mode.
So, another approach. I added another disk drive. When I boot from USB into try ubuntu, the new disk shows up at /dev/sda while the rst disk remains invisible. Fine.
But now I can run gparted and format the new drive. I can write to the file system on /dev/sda1. Great! Now let’s install ubuntu on that new disk drive. I’ll worry about booting into it later.
du -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 229G 60M 217G 1% /media/sda
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda
sudo touch /media/sda/foo
ls /media/sda
foo lost+found
Cool!
But the install ubuntu program still complains and will not proceed with rst turned on even though I don’t care to use the invisible rst-controlled disk and linux is happy to write on /dev/sda1
How can I get install ubuntu to proceed with installation even though rst disk controller mode is active for some other disks?