Tried to install Bluefin on my new dev machine HP ZBook G11 Power with Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and nVidia RTX 2000 ADA. At the first boot of Anaconda I cannot see the Thunderbolt 3 USB drive. I can see it on the Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 to install, anything I can test to see why?
Also tried Bazzite Gnome, same problem.
Can you open a terminal and check for the thunderbolt kernel module?
lsmod | grep thunderbolt
You could also:
lspci | grep -i thunderbolt
I have a thunderbolt drive, but have never noticed if it is detected when booting an ISO. There is a possibility that the thunderbolt kernel module is not included in the ISO, whereas it is included with the full system.
I’m speculating.
Here’s what my running system says:
❯ lsmod|grep thund
134: thunderbolt 593920 0
❯ lspci | grep -i thunderbolt
39: 0d:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02)
40: 0e:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02)
41: 0e:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02)
42: 0e:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02)
43: 0e:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02)
44: 0f:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 NHI [Maple Ridge 4C 2020]
45: 43:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [Maple Ridge 4C 2020]
46: 44:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7440 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge DD 2018] (rev 06)
47: 45:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7440 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge DD 2018] (rev 06)
48: 45:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7440 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge DD 2018] (rev 06)
49: 46:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation JHL7440 Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller [Titan Ridge DD 2018] (rev 06)
lsmod|grep thund
shows “Usage: lsmod” and nothing else
lspci | grep -i thunderbolt
shows nothing