I have loaded an umbrel instance on a removable disk using Balena Etcher.
I am using an old windows laptop and have just installed an internal 2TB NVME SSD into it, so that I can install the Umbrel operating system onto it, rather than onto the smaller, slower root hard drive.
The SSD is currently empty and formatted as a windows disk (NTFS).
When I boot up from BIOS and the UMBREL setup files start, it comes to the prompt “select a storage device by number to install umbrelOS on:” (All good so far)
I want to install on the 2TB disk, but it is not recognised as an option (Only the hard drive and the USB drive that I have the Umbrel instance on)
The reason for 2TB, is so that I can install a few different nodes on the SSD (and generally for file accessing to be a lot quicker)
Can anyone advise how can I install UMBREL on the internal SSD, in order to use.
It sounds like to me, that you need to tell your Computer Bios that the new SSD can be used as a Bootable Device. Your UmbrelOS USB Installing, is only showing you devices it can install on that are bootable device.
I would look to see if there is a Bios Setting that can allow that. That, or with it having Windows Format already on it, it is causing an issue but I don’t that that is the case. When I got my Bosgame Mini PC, it came pre-load with WinOS and it installed right over the top of it, just fine. I have also installed on the 2nd SSD Slot of a Mini PC too … so, the UmbrelOS USB Installer should not be having a problem with that.
Thanks Rod.
Appreciate you suggesting a fix.
After taking on board your suggestion, I did some more googling and came across a 10 year old article and still is valid for actioning this.
I had to go into BIOS and change the Storage operation from RAID to AHCI….. and a few other things beforehand for safe booting (as it couldn’t read any drives if just went and changed the operation by itself).
If anyone out there has similar issues to mine, check out the great article that I referenced, in order to get a bootable SSD.
SOLUTION: Switch Windows 10 from RAID/IDE to AHCI operation