8bit
2020-01-02, 00:33
My Acer Apsire A515-54 pre-installed with Windows 10 and I'm :confused: attempting :mad: to dual boot Kali.
During installation the wizard refuses to detect my NVMe SSD, only showing my PNY-USB with Live ISO.
So...
>Following advice from a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/dm7cxm/issue_installing_dualboot_win10_kali_linux/) I tried to install EasyBCD - which lead me to some documentation (https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/uefi/).
which didn't really help since I can't install GRUB or Kali (since it won't detect my SSD)
>At which point I figured I'd check my BIOS version to maybe allow a different boot mode (such as legacy)
Which didn't really change anything
>Following another redditor's dilemma (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/dm7cxm/issue_installing_dualboot_win10_kali_linux/) to enable AHCI during booting I found a pretty neat trick to enable AHCI sata drivers by booting into safemode (https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Dual-booting-Windows-10-and-Ubuntu-17-04-on-NVMe-SSD-Dell/td-p/5110983).
squashed again, Kali still won't detect the SSD
So I'm here now, wondering if I should reinstall windows... or wipe my drive and install Kali then use GPart to install windows... or just run in a VM like everyone else.
During installation the wizard refuses to detect my NVMe SSD, only showing my PNY-USB with Live ISO.
So...
>Following advice from a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/dm7cxm/issue_installing_dualboot_win10_kali_linux/) I tried to install EasyBCD - which lead me to some documentation (https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/uefi/).
which didn't really help since I can't install GRUB or Kali (since it won't detect my SSD)
>At which point I figured I'd check my BIOS version to maybe allow a different boot mode (such as legacy)
Which didn't really change anything
>Following another redditor's dilemma (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/dm7cxm/issue_installing_dualboot_win10_kali_linux/) to enable AHCI during booting I found a pretty neat trick to enable AHCI sata drivers by booting into safemode (https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Dual-booting-Windows-10-and-Ubuntu-17-04-on-NVMe-SSD-Dell/td-p/5110983).
squashed again, Kali still won't detect the SSD
So I'm here now, wondering if I should reinstall windows... or wipe my drive and install Kali then use GPart to install windows... or just run in a VM like everyone else.