Re: [Nix-dev] Can't install NixOS on an NVME drive

2017-04-22 Thread Julien Tanguy
I just stumbled upon this reddit post which explains how to do the trick without reinstalling windows: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/66fr15/xps_15_9560_w_samsung_pm961_had_raid_not_ahci/ The trick is apparently to relax windows' safeboot rules to allow it to boot into safe mode, then rebo

Re: [Nix-dev] Can't install NixOS on an NVME drive

2017-04-19 Thread David Izquierdo
If that was indeed the problem, the way to "keep" windows working is to reinstall it in AHCI mode. Its recovery tools may or may not be able to fix that too. On 19/04/17 09:55, Julien Tanguy wrote: Hello Liam, For NixOS to work, you have to change the SSD controller from RAID ON to AHCI. Thi

Re: [Nix-dev] Can't install NixOS on an NVME drive

2017-04-19 Thread Julien Tanguy
Hello Liam, For NixOS to work, you have to change the SSD controller from RAID ON to AHCI. This effectively *breaks *the windows install. As of today I haven't found a better way to switch to windows than to change this SSD setting each time I want to boot to another OS. I wrote something about m

[Nix-dev] Can't install NixOS on an NVME drive

2017-04-18 Thread Liam Wigney
Hey all, I've been trying to install NixOS on the new XPS 13 but I've found that NixOS can't find the drive in /dev/. There's no listing for /sdax or /nvmex. I've looked online and found that changing some bios settings (Something about raid) makes it show up, however doing that stops windows boo