Installer cannot detect physical volumes
I got a live USB up and running. The installer doesnt start on its own, but I can run it from the Terminal. Once I run the terminal it always says theres not enough space to install Pop. When I check gparted all my drives are there. I checked the log file and it just stops at "obtaining list of physical volumes".
I checked the USB, tried different ISOs, matched the hashes. Nothing seems to make the installer work.
Posted May 6, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC
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What version of Pop!_OS and hardware, exactly? Are you willing to install it on what drive? What is shows when you use the command
lsblk?Im using a fresh ISO downloaded from Pop_os. 20.04 (nvidia) although I tried the intel version and got the same error. Hardware wise Im running a desktop with Ryzen 7 2700x 32gb RAM, 500Gb NVMe (this is where i want to install), 256 NVMe, and 120Gb SSD. I have a Nvidia 970 and AMD RX 590. Running lsblk shows:
lsblk output
I have no experience with installing on NVMe, so I am not sure if something special is needed. Did you try to make room for the installation first and then boot the installation media? Also, someone else also complained about not being able to boot using a Ryzen 7 lately IIRIC...
I thought that might be part of it too, but i can install Fedora, Solus, and arch all without issue. I hunted down an older ISO (19.08) and It had the same issue there. Someone else suggested that is seems like its not running with super user permissions but when I run it with sudo, it says "Failed to register: Timeout was reached". I'll see if I can find anything about ryzen 7, but that sounds odd.
Thanks
Any updates on this? Did you manage to install? I'm having the same problem