Glenn McIntosh writes:

> For some reason the distro wouldn't install with the new SSD on the
> fourth SATA port (failed during partitioning), but after removing the
> other disks and putting the new SSD on the second SATA port, it
> installed fine.

Double-check that the BIOS is using AHCI or NVMe,
not "legacy" or "hybrid" mode.

> What doesn't work: (1) with both SSD drives in place (Windows on the
> first SATA port), an attempt to BIOS boot to Windows appears to start
> the Windows boot ("Windows is loading files"), but then the system boots
> from the other (Linux drive); (2) also, update-grub on the Linux side
> does not find the Windows system. We ran out of time to try adding the
> chainload entry in grub.cfg by hand.

grub doesn't actually do the finding;
that is carried out by a package called os-prober,
which hooks itself into grub2's install/update scripts.

Double-check that os-prober is installed.

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