[SOLVED] Lenovo D30 NVME M2 SSD boot

[evosonic]

Hi All!

I have a Lenovo D30. There is no native NVME support on the motherboard, thus I bought a NVME PCIe card and M2 SSD. I cannot boot from this directly, because BOIS does not see it, so I am looking for an alternative solution for this issue. My current windows 10 on sata ssd detected and sees the M2 drive in windows, but the BIOS does not, thus I cannot set the M2 as boot drive. Does anybody know what should I do to solve the problem?

Thank you.

 

[rgd1101]

there is no solution if bios don't support booting from one.
buy a 2.5" ssd or use the pcie as storage only

 

[evosonic]

I know that it does not support, but I assume there is a bypass solution like boot from USB and after that boot from NVME or something like that...

 

[USAFRet]

I know that it does not support, but I assume there is a bypass solution like boot from USB and after that boot from NVME or something like that...

No, there is no "bypass".
If the motherboard does not natively support booting from that drive, it won't.

 

[evosonic]

Thank you.

 

[lazcho]

That's not true, there are solutions for that
Just yesterday solved the same problem with HP z600 and PCIe nvme card.
I had no problems with installing linux on the nvme and the grub on another disk (usb flash/hdd) and then boot successfully and start the linux os.
The problem was installing the windows 10 on the nvme as it just refused doing that with warning that the bios cannot boot from that device.
Solution: Install DUET (with refind) on USB drive, boot from it, win 10 will install and then boot successfully using nvme
https://www.win-raid.com/t3286f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-for-systems-with-legacy-BIOS-and-UEFI-board-DUET-REFIND.html

 

[evosonic]

Hi!
It is working, thank you very much for your support!!!