Technically it is not certified for the system by Dell. But in reality a number of users have done this successfully. These posts have more information.
E6540 will not recognize the mini card as a drive.
In the WWAN slot you may install an mSATA card. As some people found out, not every brand and size mSATA card is recognized by BIOS, so pick one that is proven to work. Please see:---
A 64gb or 128gb mSATA card is plenty for OS; on my own e6540 I made two partitions, one for windows (I use 7), one for slackware.
Windows will see mSATA card as drive0, but Linux will consider it sdb which will necessitate adjusting boot-loader. You should install Windows on the mSATA card, Linux on the SSD.
I already got windows on my hdd/ssd is there a way to get it switched over to my msata ssd and also when I'm attempting to do a graphical install with kali I'm getting an error stating cannot read media on cd/rom drive and when I exit graphical install it states something quite briefly about GFX driver issue or something to that affect it is quite brief please this is driving me insane all i want is to have kali on one ssd msata or the hdd/ssd and to have my windows files and media on the other and how to complete this task without driving myself insane in bios settings I'm relatively new to dell and this bios system lo
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Technically it is not certified for the system by Dell. But in reality a number of users have done this successfully. These posts have more information.
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E6540 will not recognize the mini card as a drive.
In the WWAN slot you may install an mSATA card. As some people found out, not every brand and size mSATA card is recognized by BIOS, so pick one that is proven to work. Please see:---
https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/E6540-mSata-support/m-p/6247150?search-action-id=340362460803&search-result-uid=6247150
A 64gb or 128gb mSATA card is plenty for OS; on my own e6540 I made two partitions, one for windows (I use 7), one for slackware.
Windows will see mSATA card as drive0, but Linux will consider it sdb which will necessitate adjusting boot-loader. You should install Windows on the mSATA card, Linux on the SSD.
Dzak_55
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January 12th, 2020 22:00
if it makes any difference I'm running 16 gb of ram as well I'm not having a problem reading my msata ssd either.
Dzak_55
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January 12th, 2020 22:00
I already got windows on my hdd/ssd is there a way to get it switched over to my msata ssd and also when I'm attempting to do a graphical install with kali I'm getting an error stating cannot read media on cd/rom drive and when I exit graphical install it states something quite briefly about GFX driver issue or something to that affect it is quite brief please this is driving me insane all i want is to have kali on one ssd msata or the hdd/ssd and to have my windows files and media on the other and how to complete this task without driving myself insane in bios settings I'm relatively new to dell and this bios system lo