UPDATE and FINAL: I followed the procedure in this link, which took all of 5 minutes with NO data loss: BIOS process to change to AHCI from RST I ran 3DMark before & after my change from RST to AHCI and I lost 30 points in the change to AHCI. I think that my plan NOW is to revert it back to RST,…

see this [image] Installer needs to add vmd module to mkinitcpio - Testers Needed Feature Request I have a desktop and netbook, both of which do not have Intel VMD. I can test it on both machines. What would I be looking for, aside from boot time? (I don’t really “time” h…

[image] MajorPITA: I DID find a post about making BIOS changes to help Linux see the NVMe drives to install, but I’d love to avoid doing that, if possible. Last I checked, the kernel maintainers haven’t accepted the RST source code provided by Intel to officially support it under Linux. Your…

Hopefully this link will help you You must manually change storage type from RST to AHCI in BIOS settings for linux to be able to detect the NVME drive https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_Legion_7i#NVME_Detection

[image] Olli: Hopefullythis link will help you Be careful! That’s why I provided these warnings: [image] winnie: Your best bet is to disable it in the BIOS, and use the two “separate” drives, as they will be displayed by the installer. However, this will effectively wipe your current Win…

Thank You Everybody!! I updated my original post with a link to the article regarding the BIOS change from RST to AHCI. Especially encouraging is the post from “Mickey” reporting his success on the same laptop as mine. My laptop was unexpectedly shipped with the two drives in RAID 0. I immediately…

Thanks Winnie! Unless I misunderstand what you’re saying: My drives were NOT in a RAID array. I was able to try AHCI, find that I took too much of a performance hit, and changed it back to RST. All is well, all accomplished using this link with no loss of data. Also, it took about 5 minutes to comp…

How did you get the installer to detect your drives while still using RST? There is no native Linux support as far as I’m aware. [image] MajorPITA: Edit to add: The laptop was unexpectedly shipped with the two drives in RAID 0. I immediately deleted the array to separate the drives into OS & St…

NVME M.2 not seen to install in Dual-Boot : Is it possible to inject the Intel drivers into the distro .ISO?

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