Hi Folks,
I’m trying to upgrade the a/m laptop and the TW installer hangs near the end of the hardware detection.
This is an Intel i7-11800H cpu with NDVIDA RTX (3060 as I recall) with 16GB ram and a 1TB NVME card. I’m adding another NVME so that I can keep TW separate from Windows. At the same time, I’ve upgraded the RAM and decided to do a fresh install of windows.
Unfortunately, when I try to install TW, the process hangs; I suspect it is a similar problem to the windows installation, which can’t see the storage devices because it doesn’t have the IRST drivers that Intel has started using. I think I have a solution for the windows installation, loading the drivers at install time, but I have not tried it yet.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to proceed with the TW installation?
Cheers,
Brad
Does anyone know of an 11th gen IRST driver for TW/Linux?
I’ve checked the Intel site, but cannot locate one I can be sure of.
Cheers.
To bypass the issue, you can switch in BIOS from RST to AHCI mode. Afterwards the NVME should be visible to the installer.
There are several threads which explain that RST support is limited. Due to bad code quality (according kernel developers), it was never incorporated into kernel.
Thanks @hui for the quick reply.
I tried that before, but without success. The TW installation prog got to the end of the Hardware Detect stages and then became hung, with just a “black screen of death” and an underscore in the upper left corner.
FYI: I’ve installed 2 NVMEs, 1TB and 2TB, both Samsung; the first is reused; the latter one is new…
@bcain That could be just the graphics, as indicated by @hui switch the BIOS, then in the installer, add the nomodeset option to grub
Thanks for that @malcolmlewis and @hui … but, if that works for TW installation, will I also have to switch the VMD/iRST ON/OFF in the bios every time I want to go from one OS to the other, or will they both play nice regardless of what state the VMD is in?
You can perform a test. If Windows still boots with switched off RST, you don’t have any problem and don’t need to switch forward and back.
The Intel RST driver does not support Linux. Supported operating systems (OS) are only Windows® 10 64-bit and Windows 11* 64-bit.
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Re-install Windows with AHCI support…
@hui, @malcolmlewis … “place your preferred expletive here” Windoze!
Perhaps I can do all I need Windows for in a VM (e.g. Office365 stuff)?
Unfortunately Libreoffice isn’t an option for what I need to do…
@bcain I have a Dell Workstation here that has vmd support, but no hardware yet to test and unlikely to in the short term… the driver is present when enabled in the BIOS.
I would look at running a VM for Windows 11… It’s what I do here and just use the flatpak virt-viewer client to connect, so that means once started on my desktop system, can connect from any device with the viewer application.
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Thanks for the lead…I will definitely check it out.
I haven’t used VM for several years so I’ll do some reading first.
Cheers
To paraphrase Hagrid…Y’re a wizard @malcolmlewis.
Adding the nomodeset flag to the boot line was the spell that worked.
CHeers!
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