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math.monkey
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October 15th, 2018 01:00
Boot from HDD2
Hi all,
[TLDR: I am unable to select my newly installed 2.5” SATA SSD as the boot drive by either (i) the boot menu (when I pressed F12 at startup) or (ii) changing the default boot drive in the BIOS settings. Could anyone offer advice on how to successfully choose between booting on the m2 SSD and the new SATA SSD on start up?]
I've installed a new 250GB 2.5" SATA SSD with the intention of using it as the boot-up drive for Ubuntu 16.04. It has been initialised as a GPT drive with NTFS formatting; there are no partitions on it.
Unfortunately, I am unable to select my newly installed 2.5” SATA SSD as the boot drive by either (i) the Boot Menu (when I pressed F12 at startup) or (ii) changing the default boot drive in the BIOS settings. The 3 options I have in the BIOS are:
- Windows boot drive
- ipv4
- ipv6
In the Boot Menu, I get the additional option of the bootable Ubuntu USB drive that I created.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve the possibility of choosing to boot up on either the m2 SSD (I.e. Windows), or the SATA SSD (Ubuntu) through the boot menu?
I have come across generic boot drive tutorials, and read through forum posts regarding replacing hard drives, but can't find any specific help on this. At a loss on how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Bios is not a boot manager.
You must intstall drives one at a time with the others removed to then boot from them.
Once each drive has been installed separately you can put them all back.
You cant select a boot drive willy nilly from whatever port to change the boot order.
You also cannot swap a drive from sata 0 to Sata 1 2 3 4 5 and then select as boot.
MBR MSDOS would work with that ATA but sata AHCI does not support this.
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Posted October 16th, 2018 10:00
Hi Tesla, many thanks for looking into this.
- Aurora R7: i7-8700, 850W power supply, 16GB RAM (no optane), 256GB m.2 pcie SSD (primary drive), 1TB 3.5" SATA HDD (storage), 250GB 2.5" SATA SSD (self-installed), GTX1070 gpu
- See above. Windows boots from the 256GB m.2 pcie SSD.
The self-installed 250GB 2.5" SSD is fresh from the shop, and has only been initialised as GPT format; it has no Windows partitions. - Yes, I am hoping to setup a dual-boot system, such that Ubuntu boots from the 250 GB 2.5" SSD.
I may have found my own answer today: the 2.5" SSD can only appear in the Boot Menu only after Ubuntu has been installed on it? Is this right?
Any advice would be appreciated!
Tesla1856
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Posted October 15th, 2018 15:00
1. What exact machine do you have?
2. What all drives are installed (including Optane)?
3. Are you trying to setup a Dual-Boot (Windows/Ubuntu) or just Ubuntu?
Dell Rockstar
Microsoft Windows and Apple iOS Developer (Retired)
- Like many of you, I can appreciate a good game-engine.
- I answer questions here, but I'm not a Dell employee.
- Consider giving posts you like a "thumbs-up"
- Posting models-numbers and software versions speeds trouble-shooting.
- Click "Mark as Accepted Answer" on any post that answers your question best.