Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Arelm
Hello Everyone. Some time ago I helped a friend purchase a Dell laptop (I don’t remember which crowd she got the laptop from) and specified that the drive be partitioned accordingly and configured dual boot windows and Linux. They did so without question but would not install Linux because they c

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Roger Heflin
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 sa

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread bruce
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 addition

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Kevin Becker
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. I

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Fulko Hew
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 7:26 AM Roger Heflin wrote: ... snip ... And most of the laptops that have an M2 may also still have an open > real sata location (maybe even with a cable) that you could also put a > sata ssd or spinning disk in, and dual boot that way. The 2 most > recent ones I have o

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Roger Heflin
wrote: > > > > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2021 at 9:46 AM > > From: "José Abílio Matos" > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Subject: Re: M2 on laptop > > > > On Friday, April 9, 2021 1:11:01 AM WEST Greg Woods wrote: > > > Dell likes to con

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2021 at 9:46 AM > From: "José Abílio Matos" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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 B

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-09 Thread José Abílio Matos
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

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread yanqiyu01
在 2021-04-08星期四的 22:04 +0200,Patrick Dupre写道: > According to the information that I grabbed. > This SSD has a windows installed > The drive would be encrypted. Usually encrypted means bitlocker, while it is on filesystem level and have nothing to do with the hardware. For a m.2 device, it can be e

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 11:46 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it is > not > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > > Dell likes to configure the SSD as a RAID in the BIOS. Even though their Windows installation is not using

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:22 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it > is not > > > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > > > Is a driver missing? > > > The SSD is recognized by the bios. > > It is a Dell lapto

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
According to the information that I grabbed. This SSD has a windows installed The drive would be encrypted. My original idea what to install a dual-boot. It seems compromised. Is it a way for microsoft to fight against Linux? > > > Hello, > > > > > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop wi

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Terry Polzin
Anything in dmsg ? On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:22 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it > is not > > > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > > > Is a driver missing? > > > The SSD is recognized by the bios. >

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > Hello, > > > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it is > > not > > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > > Is a driver missing? > > The SSD is recognized by the bios. It is a Dell laptop. Is is an internal M2 format! I boot on the fedora live USB key. n

Re: M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Digimer
On 2021-04-08 1:45 p.m., Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it is not > recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). > Is a driver missing? > The SSD is recognized by he bios. > > Thanks Your question is vague and lacking in details. Th

M2 on laptop

2021-04-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I wanted to install fedora 33 on a laptop with a M2 SSD 128.Go, but it is not recognized by fdisk (fedora live WK). Is a driver missing? The SSD is recognized by he bios. Thanks === Patrick DUPRÉ