Problem with download LinuxCNC 2.9.10 Debian 13 Trixie PREEMPT-RT ISO

I downloaded LinuxCNC 2.9.10 Debian 13 Trixie PREEMPT-RT ISO and ran the live version on my Windows 11 laptop, I used Gparted to partition the disk. I then rebooted to do the installation. The partitioner in the installation program would not recognize the internal disk I had just partitioned. I also tried the text based installer it didn't recognize the disk and it's partitions either. It there a version that will install available?
thanks
bill a.

Hi Bill,

I tried the 2.9.10 Trixie ISO in a UEFI VM with a Windows 11 style disk (GPT, EFI, MSR, NTFS, plus ext4 and swap made in GParted) and the installer listed the disk and all partitions, so the image itself seems fine. To narrow it down on your laptop, could you tell us:

1. The laptop make and model.
2. In the BIOS/UEFI setup, the storage or SATA mode: "RAID On", "Intel RST" or "VMD" versus "AHCI". Many Windows laptops ship with RAID/RST, and Linux installers often cannot see the disk in that mode.
3. From the live system, open a terminal and post the output of:
lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL
lspci -nn | grep -iE 'sata|raid|nvme|vmd|non-volatile'
4. What the installer shows exactly: no disk at all, or the disk without your partitions? Note that the installer does not use partitions made in GParted automatically. Pick "Manual", select your ext4 partition, set "Use as: Ext4" with mount point "/", and set the swap partition as swap.

If the BIOS is in RAID/RST mode, switching to AHCI usually fixes it, but Windows needs to be prepared for that first (boot once into safe mode) or it will not start afterwards.

Besides what Grandixximo advised, disabe secure boot and enable CMT.
Be warned that windows might not boot after those changes if you plan on dual boot.

HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
dmidecode 3.6
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.5.0 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
Version:
Serial Number: 1H84340R2Z
UUID: 34384831-3433-5230-325a-5a5234333831
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: 7L2C7UA#ABA
Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=SPT

Handle 0x0023, DMI type 32, 11 bytes
System Boot Information
Status: No errors detected
There is no BIOS entry for the storage or SATA mode.
Secure Boot is turned off.
The only disk that the installer see's is sdb the USB stick
I did use Manual and that was when the only disk that appeared was sdb
I also tried the text option - same results.

root@debian:/home/user# lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL
NAME SIZE TYPE FSTYPE LABEL
loop0 1.9G loop squashfs
sda 119.2G disk
├─sda1 260M part vfat SYSTEM
├─sda2 16M part
├─sda3 63.1G part ntfs Windows
├─sda4 25.8G part ext4 /root
├─sda5 776M part ntfs
└─sda6 29.3G part ext4 /home
sdb 7.5G disk iso9660 LinuxCNC_2.9.10
├─sdb1 3.9G part iso9660 LinuxCNC_2.9.10
└─sdb2 3.2M part vfat
root@debian:/home/user#
root@debian:/home/user# lspci -nn | grep -iE 'sata|raid|nvme|vmd|non-volatile'
root@debian:/home/user#

The `sda5` partition is the Windows recovery partition.
There is a specific procedure for removing it.
I don’t recall the exact steps, but the recovery data can exist either as a separate partition or as a file on the Windows partition. By running a few simple commands in Windows, you can copy the partition contents into a file, adjust your Windows settings, and then delete the now-unnecessary partition. You can find detailed instructions for this on Google.

As for the issue you described, it is an error in the installer; this happens occasionally, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Alternatively, you could install a standard version of Debian 13 with the Xfce4 desktop environment, and then install LinuxCNC—either from the Debian repositories or by using `.deb` files downloaded from the internet, should you need a specific version.

What would I have to add to the standard Debian 13.7.0 to get the LinuxCNC 2.9.10 preempt RT to work?. And where would I find the necessary files?
I have always just downloaded from LinuxCNC downloads to get a working version.

bill.anderson wrote:

What would I have to add to the standard Debian 13.7.0 to get the LinuxCNC 2.9.10 preempt RT to work?. And where would I find the necessary files?
I have always just downloaded from LinuxCNC downloads to get a working version.
 

I can’t be of much help, as I always compile from source myself.
However, I do know that it’s actually quite simple.
To install the standard version, you only need four commands: To install a specific version, you’ll need to look for the packages online. The installation process is similar: The difference is that the "./" before the filename tells the installer to use a local file instead of searching for it in a repository.

One issue with using precompiled packages is that dependencies are sometimes not met.

I checked packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linuxcnc-uspace
In Trixie, the standard version is 2.9.4.
Other versions can be downloaded from www.linuxcnc.org/dists/trixie/2.9-uspace/binary-amd64/
(There is an issue with version 2.9.9, so it should not be used.)

Thanks, but I think I might have a bigger problem☹️ I downloaded Debian 13.7.0 and got the same results. I am going to try other versions to see what happens. I will probably be upset if it turns out to be a HP Bios problem