My transition from Windows only to Windows/Linux User is found to be more difficult than most users. As I find difficulties finding solutions compatible to the situation, I have to cast a wider net and ask for advice and assistance if I were to begin as a new Linux user beyond classroom introductions.
To first explain, I have a PC personally built a year ago, and now proceeding to perform the next phase and expand the build's functionality and capabilities. It has taken a year to research and prepare resources to set up, and caught into hampering snags in the implementation process.
The distribution chosen was Ubuntu as a main Linux OS, and also set to perform virtualization and produce a VM in a separate hard drive dedicated for one partition. The build is first installed with Windows 7, with the motherboard running in Intel RST RAID mode to establish and maintain a RAID 1 3TD HDD pair for Win 7 to use as a data storage drive.
The initial attempts to install Ubuntu in a separate drive come with problems that I can list:
I have one main goal to fulfill specifically for this situation: Install and Boot Linux (any distro with KVM) with Intel RST in place.
I may have to uninstall Ubuntu in the process and purge its boot option since it is installed in AHCI.
Known and Planned Drive configuration:
I am all ears on the subject, but because my Windows drives carry mission-critical data, I cannot afford to have additional facedesking despite having backup images of their partitions that was used once during the transition from 250GB NVMe to 500GB NVMe.
To first explain, I have a PC personally built a year ago, and now proceeding to perform the next phase and expand the build's functionality and capabilities. It has taken a year to research and prepare resources to set up, and caught into hampering snags in the implementation process.
The distribution chosen was Ubuntu as a main Linux OS, and also set to perform virtualization and produce a VM in a separate hard drive dedicated for one partition. The build is first installed with Windows 7, with the motherboard running in Intel RST RAID mode to establish and maintain a RAID 1 3TD HDD pair for Win 7 to use as a data storage drive.
The initial attempts to install Ubuntu in a separate drive come with problems that I can list:
Ubuntu install/live USB cannot detect any SATA/NVMe drive while motherboard is in RST mode, detectable only in AHCI mode.
Installing Ubuntu in AHCI mode would require that I must switch back to RST whenever I want to boot Win 7.
Switching back to AHCI also treats the RAID 1 drives as a single drive, raising concerns of potential integrity and recovery compromise despite the fact that they will not be used by Ubuntu.
I have one main goal to fulfill specifically for this situation: Install and Boot Linux (any distro with KVM) with Intel RST in place.
I may have to uninstall Ubuntu in the process and purge its boot option since it is installed in AHCI.
Known and Planned Drive configuration:
Windows 7: 500GB NVMe SSD, 500GB SATA SSD, 2 3TB SATA HDD in RAID 1
Linux: 500GB SATA HDD
Virtual Machine: 1TB SATA HDD
I am all ears on the subject, but because my Windows drives carry mission-critical data, I cannot afford to have additional facedesking despite having backup images of their partitions that was used once during the transition from 250GB NVMe to 500GB NVMe.
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