I don’t see a way to change the AHCI interface on the NVME drives… I was hoping bitlocker was causing my issue, but I disabled it and still no drives show up in Ubuntu or Monjaro.
Frustrated… also Eff Bitlocker and Microsoft to inflicting it on people.
I see there is maybe I bios update I can try. The Bios this has on it is straight up garbage. For a gaming laptop I would expect more out of the bios.
Uhm, nvme drives dont use ahci. As long as you have drivers it should see nvme drives. Are you seeing the drives when haing gparted or fdisk? Have you tried a newer kernel system ? Like ubuntu 25.10?
i assume Monjaro would be using the newest kernel but I will verify.
So updated the bios and the long shot of being able to disable Intel raid storage technology did not work out.
So I’m not able to disable RST.
Can grub load with RST? I’m wondering if I pull out the nvme I bought for Linux and use an enclosure to install. Could I then put the nvme back in the RST enabled machine and set the bios to boot from the Linux drive?
Or will grub just not work once it is back trapped in RST?
FYI my nvme drives are non-raid
RST doesn’t apply to NVME drives at all. It’s an older technology. The modern analog is VROC, and that needs a physical key and is mostly only available on servers anyways. You should see the NVME drives though as long as they are physically present. Very strange.
the internet says the installer having issues with RST and the solve is to disable it and tell windows to Eff Off…
Not finding any details about an installed instance trying to run in RST.
I guess I will try it tonight if nobody can tell me it is hopeless. I don’t wanna return the laptop to CostCo just because I didn’t research enough… I’m old fashion that way.
So I made progress… No installing linux in a USB enclouser didn’t work.
But I found that MSI laptops have a hidden advenced bios menu.
the magic keys are left Alt + F2 + Right Ctrl + Right Shift… on laptops without a Right Ctrl then it is replaced here with the Copilot key which is in the same spot of right ctrl.
I was able to disable VMD after finding it again in an submenu even though the top level menu was greyed out.
I got Manjaro installed with VMD disabled in the ordinary way. I decided to blow away the windows install (after recording the CD key and system info text mostly for the OEM version of windows ). I’ve seen some articles about steps you can take before disabling VMD to save your windows install… I just didn’t care about saving it as it a brand new laptop. I guess I want linux on the better gen 5 drive anyway.