<div dir="ltr">Sorry I can't help with the Dell laptop RST setting and I assume you did a good search of the BIOS options and on Google. I have one myself but older and different model. My laptop has 16GB RAM and that's just enough to run Window 10 as a VM (Virtualbox) on Ubuntu 22.04 host. And it runs quite well so long as I set the Windows client to limit at about 8GB RAM. I really recommend that one run a Linux-Windows box as a linux host and Windows client rather than dual-boot - provided you have enough RAM and you aren't using this for Windows gaming or other Windows graphics-intensive operations. If you do want to run Windows as a VM (virtual machine) then, in hindsight, I'd get a laptop with 32GB or more to be comfortable.<div>Best, Phil <div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 7:50 PM Bob Proulx <<a href="mailto:bob@proulx.com">bob@proulx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Brian,<br>
<br>
bsimpson <a href="http://nvastro.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">nvastro.com</a> wrote:<br>
> I've just bought a new Dell laptop with Windows 11. I have shrunk<br>
> the Windows partition so that I can dual-boot it and Linux Mint.<br>
> Unfortunately the Linux installer doesn't recognize the 1TB SSD<br>
> drive. I did some web search and it appears that the issue is the<br>
> Intel RST driver for the SSD.<br>
<br>
Intel RST is like on-board hardware RAID. It is always to be avoided.<br>
<br>
As far as I know RST is only supported in RHEL where it has been<br>
patched in. Pretty sure. Don't quote me on it and don't count on it<br>
unless you have personally verified that information. So that would<br>
be an option. A terrible option. But I will mention it anyway. Not<br>
that I would do it. It's just not worth the hassle. And then you<br>
would forever be vendor locked-in to RHEL.<br>
<br>
> The web pages I've seen say to go to BIOS and change the storage<br>
> mode from RST to AHCI.<br>
<br>
Yes. That's the way. But since you want to dual boot be aware that<br>
Windows will need to be switched from RST to AHCI or Windows won't<br>
boot. You would need to investigate the recipe to do this. I have<br>
switched Windows from SATA to virtio for use in virtualized<br>
installations and think the process to switch from RST to SATA would<br>
be similar.<br>
<br>
> But there is no such option with the bios on<br>
> this Dell 7630 laptop. It appears only RST is available. I thought<br>
<br>
There is no option in the BIOS to disable RST? That would be a<br>
showstopper bug for me.<br>
<br>
It seems that other people are having similar problems with that<br>
laptop. Here is the tale of another person who is also stuck.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/inspiron/inspiron-16-7630-not-able-to-set-sata-operation-to-ahci-in-bios/64d49505b5233436677d3767" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/inspiron/inspiron-16-7630-not-able-to-set-sata-operation-to-ahci-in-bios/64d49505b5233436677d3767</a><br>
<br>
> I'd query this group to see if there is any option other than<br>
> returning this laptop.<br>
<br>
I have said all that I know. Good luck!<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
</blockquote></div>