> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2021 at 9:46 AM > From: "José Abílio Matos" <jaomatos@xxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: M2 on laptop > > On Friday, April 9, 2021 1:11:01 AM WEST 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. > > > > --Greg > > This is +1 message. :-) > > Yesterday I had precisely the same issue and the solution that Greg stated was > the solution. This was a Dell XPS 15. > > In this case the windows version was erased so there was no need for the > workaround. Looking in the BIOS, in the storage section, was enough to see > that the chosen configuration was RAID, changing it to AHCI allowed the > installer to see the disk and to proceed with the installation. > > Regards, > -- > José Matos > Finally can I expect to install a dual-boot by keeping the installed windows running after shrinking the original partition if I need? These 2 comments do not seem to match together. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
