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xyberia

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Registered: 2021-02-11

Posts: 1

SSD not detected

So i just recently installed arch linux successfully, the only problem i have is that GURB doesn't detect my windows image, so i have to change boot options in bios whenever i want to boot into it.
at first i thought it's a gurb related issue, but then figured out that arch doesn't detect my SSD which is my main drive (where windows is installed) to begin with so i'm guessing that's the problem ?
i googled the issue, most solutions were proposing that it's related to the SSD being RAID but i don't think that's the issue on my side since it's a laptop im working on and it doesnt say anywhere in the bios whether it's RAID or not.

Please let me know if there's anything i need to run to diagnose the problem.
thanks in advance, cheers.

running sdisk -l gives this, the SSD is not included :

 
Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1          34      32767      32734    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda2       32768 1543923711 1543890944 736.2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3  1543923712 1931896831  387973120   185G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4  1931896832 1942382591   10485760     5G Linux swap
/dev/sda5  1942382592 1953525134   11142543   5.3G EFI System

euromatlox

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Registered: 2017-02-10

Posts: 149

Re: SSD not detected

Not sure if it helps, but have you installed ntfs-3g package ?
That package is mentioned in ArchWiki Grub documentation.
I use REFind in my laptop, where Windows10 and Arch coexist.
In my Linux only desktop I use Grub, so I cannot help much more.

Last edited by euromatlox (2021-02-11 21:05:37)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,859

Re: SSD not detected

Please post the full output of dmesg.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: SSD not detected

Des your laptop have more than one physical drive? Your sdisk output clearly shows Windows partitions.

Did you just forget to mount the Windows partition before configuring grub?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … ng_systems

PS - It's grub, not gurb.

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