top-posting - sorry but quick: just by fortune found the solution an
hour after posting!
<https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2429951&p=13900969#post13900969>
you boot into BIOS, no AHCI, but then you hit "Control S" and it
magically appears!
reboot, and there's the SSD!
I sat on this for hours. wrong search string.
fjd
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Felmon Davis wrote:
greets!
been looking around for a solution without avail. Acer Swift 3 SF313-52.
tried X-buntu, MX-Linux and another distro. gparted, fdisk and their
partition managers only show the usb so no install is possible.
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the BIOS and controls in Windows 10 are pretty stripped down.
I tried to make progress by turning off secure boot but all that id was to
grey out the switches in BIOS which allow UEFI to select partitions and
drives.
in Windows Fast-Boot is off, Norton disabled, Windows Defender toothless.
the Swift 3 has TPM; I cleared that, also tried disabling it.
there is talk of getting AHCI to run but playing with BCEDIT to disable
SAFEBOOT doesn't generate an option in the BIOS to use AHCI.
I would rather not go the route of wiping the SSD and installing stuff. I am
willing to allow Windows to be the boot-loader, I just want the freedom to
install other systems side-by-side.
welcome advice.
fjd
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Felmon Davis
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