Hi guys!! Thanks for the information helping the OP with his/her/their issue.
I'm not trying to take over the thread, but I'm going to run into a similar situation. I'm thinking of getting a laptop (hp/lenovo/dell) that would have windows installed on the SSD. I'm thinking of getting an additional 2G 2.5" SATA and would like to be able to dual boot windows/fed (or rhel). For those of you who've gone down this path. What are issues I need to be aware of that I can resolve prior to getting the box? Questions I should ask the presales tech support? Thanks much! On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:59 AM Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 18:11 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > > Dell likes to configure the SSD as a RAID in the BIOS. Even though their > Windows installation is not using it as a RAID device. When it is set to > RAID in the BIOS, Linux cannot see it. For Linux to run, it must be set to > AHCI mode. In my relatively new Dell workstation, this is under System > Configuration -> SATA Operations. > > It "should" be safe (all I can say is that it was for me) to go in and verify > that your SATA mode is set RAID (in which case this is likely the cause of > your problem), set it to AHCI, and then boot your Linux USB stick. It should > then see the SSD. > > Unfortunately, Windows will now not boot unless you change it back to RAID. > If you were planning to keep the installed Windows system (which I wanted to > do), then there is a procedure you can Google for (it might have even been > referred to on this list) that will allow the Dell-installed Windows to boot > in non-RAID mode. I followed the directions and can now dual boot Windows and > Linux out of the GRUB menu. > > > I believe I have shared this link before on the list. It worked to allow me > to keep my existing Windows installation dual boot my Dell XPS 13 (after > resizing the partition of course) > > https://support.thinkcritical.com/kb/articles/switch-windows-10-from-raid-ide-to-ahci > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
