Cannot boot W11 deployment with RAID turned on
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Hey all, apologies if this topic has been covered somewhere. I swear I have been searching for a good hour now, but found nothing!
Setting up my golden image using a Proxmox VM of Windows 11. The typical device I need to image are new Dell Optiplex’, however they come with their ‘RAID’ setting turned on in the BIOS by default.
After deploying my image (post sysprep yada yada), I get a BSOD with error ‘INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE’. Turning the BIOS setting to AHCI lets it boot as expected.
Just wondering whether there is a way to allow these devices to correctly boot without having to change the storage option. I’ve tried applying a IRST driver to the driver store before generalizing, to no avail. Whether I’m just going about this in the wrong manner.
Thanks in advance!
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@jack_darnellits Historically when the intel rst adapter is in raid-on mode linux can’t see the disk behind the raid controller and the sata controller presents itself as a different device depending on the raid mode. When you look at it when its in ahci mode linux will see it as a sata controller, when its in raid mode linux sees it as a different device, not a sata controller but a raid controller with a different device ID.
So that is all historical information. I’m a bit surprised that you were able to image the system in raid mode with FOG (because of historical experiences). You did the right thing by loading the intel rst driver into your golden image. My past experiences with the intel drive is that you need to make sure you have the right one. I’ve had troubles loading windows from dvd on laptops where its not seeing the drive and getting the right F6 driver seemed to be a real pita.
With all that said, what I would do is try to get into windows using recovery mode, that may mean booting from a recovery drive. Verify what you are loading into your mother image is the proper intel driver for the OS to see the network drive. Also make sure you have the dell winpe drivers loaded into the golden image too (you can use the pnputil.exe command to load drivers from the expanded cab file). Right after imaging windows first boot is in winpe mode. The real mode drivers might not be available since windows has not really started.
