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#1 2018-09-23 19:34:32
- shatt3red
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[SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
Hello everyone reading this topic and thank you for that!
I am trying to setup arch on my xps 9370. When I do command like:
lsblk I can't see my SSD under devices, I can only see loop0 and sda (which is my usb with live media) 
Thank you for help in advance!
Have a great day 
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#2 2018-09-23 19:40:58
- jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
Please edit your thread title to one that actually describes your issue:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post
How did you create the live media?
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#3 2018-09-23 19:50:24
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
Oh, sorry Sir. I am not a native english speaker, but I will try my best.
To answer your question: Yes, I got live media onto my USB (8gb)
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#4 2018-09-23 19:56:03
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
You have to change the SATA Controller from "RAID" to "AHCI" in your UEFI settings.
EDIT: I just saw that the wiki has this info on the XPS 13 9360 page but not on XPS 13 9370. Has this changed for the new model or is this point simply missing?
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#5 2018-09-23 20:04:27
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
You have to change the SATA Controller from "RAID" to "AHCI" in your UEFI settings.
EDIT: I just saw that the wiki has this info on the XPS 13 9360 page but not on XPS 13 9370. Has this changed for the new model or is this point simply missing?
Thank you very much Sir! The answer you provided helped me! May I just ask why is that so?
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#6 2018-09-23 20:10:01
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
Read the link I posted and edit your thread title. I won't ask again.
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#7 2018-09-23 20:12:46
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
Read the link I posted and edit your thread title. I won't ask again.
Sorry, Forgot to format title right, hope it's good now.
Regards
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#8 2018-09-23 21:28:25
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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to see SSD booting in UEFI
May I just ask why is that so?
Per default the XPS series uses fakeRAID which has to be processed differently meaning that the disk is not available as a normal block device and therefore not showing up when doing lsblk.
Since for most people fakeRAID is unnecessary it's just simpler to switch to AHCI mode where the disk is available as normal block device.
Should you ever want to setup RAID it's probably better to use software RAID anyway since there are not really any upsides to using fakeRAID (https://superuser.com/questions/245928/ … tware-raid)
PS: Don't forget to mark the thread [SOLVED]
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