You can likely ask pre-sales tech support every question you want to, it will likely resolve nothing. The odds of any answer they give you (on something like this) being right is 50/50 (ie not to be trusted nor relied on). Checking the manual and what other people trying to do similar things say is going to be much more accurate (google the model). Most tech support are trained to be confident in what they say hence you can never tell if they are a deer in the headlights making things up. I have only really caught them at the time when I immediately know what they just said was not true. So if you ask all of the questions you may only end up buying from the company with the most confident sounding tech support person that made it all up. It is not a great state but it seems to be reality. I won't waste the time asking the questions because the accuracy of the info I get is so low that the info cannot be used. On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:58 AM bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
