Can BIBM boot from an M.2 SATA SSD?
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:26 pm
I recollect reading in a post a year or two ago that BIBM is not able reliably to boot from an M.2 NVME SSD. Prior to reading that post I had tried installing BIBM on a 128GB M.2 NVME SSD in a laptop, and indeed I found that it did not work reliably (it kept losing the configuration, if I remember correctly).
I am now in the situation where the HTPC that I am building has two M.2 sockets. One is exclusively NVME, but the other supports both NVME and SATA. So, if I purchased a SATA M.2 SSD and installed BIBM on it, would it work reliably?
It occurred to me that perhaps the M.2 nature of the SSD means that BIBM does not see it as a normal disk, even if it is SATA.
On the other hand, perhaps the motherboard BIOS makes the SSD appear exactly like a normal SATA disk, and BIBM cannot detect the difference. Does anyone know?
Thank you.
-- from CyberSimian in the UK
I am now in the situation where the HTPC that I am building has two M.2 sockets. One is exclusively NVME, but the other supports both NVME and SATA. So, if I purchased a SATA M.2 SSD and installed BIBM on it, would it work reliably?
It occurred to me that perhaps the M.2 nature of the SSD means that BIBM does not see it as a normal disk, even if it is SATA.
On the other hand, perhaps the motherboard BIOS makes the SSD appear exactly like a normal SATA disk, and BIBM cannot detect the difference. Does anyone know?
Thank you.
-- from CyberSimian in the UK