along with other issues
Built a new computer fully expecting to have a linux main boot on a raid-0 array with a small ssd for a windows boot. Too bad the MB uses a certain chipset that doesn't support linux. I never did figure out how to fix it, even 6mo later looking for a fix.
So I just went with windows with a linux backup on a separate drive.
My MB has a UEFI hardware RAID option and a Legacy hardware RAID option. Linux wouldn't recognize the UEFI RAID. Find out after a day of researching that UEFI RAIDs only work on Windows. So, let's go the legacy route then. Follow MB instruction manual - turn on compatibility mode in BIOS (which disables UEFI) and hit Ctrl + R on POST screen when prompted. Ok let's do this. NOPE. Never fucking prompted, so I cannot set up a legacy RAID at all. Had to fucking go with a software RAID using mdadm. Absolute shit-tier - the hardware RAID would have just made the two partitions look like one, simplifying use... and I wouldn't have had to deal with the issues I had. I even updated the BIOS and no-go with legacy RAID.
New tech seems to be coming out too quick for bugs to be worked out, or we're having severe diversity-hire issues in these companies.
Yeah, it was some issue with AMD out-sourcing their chipset's software and the software maker just.... Didn't support linux.
That's amazing how these "don't support linux" scenarios keep happening... almost as if they want everyone on the Microsoft/Apple/Google plantation.
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