Quoting Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com:
On 01/19/16 19:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Quoting Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:18:20 -0500 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i pointed out that the SSD drive is not being used as the boot disk so i wasn't sure what grub had to do with it
I believe you said it doesn't show up in the device list in the BIOS. That is way before grub2 gets there, so I'd be highly suspicious that grub2 was the problem.
that was actually my response. i'm still not sure where in the BIOS i'd even go looking for the SSD. i'm open to suggestions. it's PCIe, so if someone wants to give me a pointer, i can check for it later this morning. i've already wandered around the BIOS and have seen nothing that seems to be appropriate.
I still say the best source of information on these sort of things is the manufacturer. I would call them, and without mentioning Linux, ask them if the plugged in SSD will show up in the BIOS screens and where would that be.
I don't have a laptop such as yours but if the drive is just like any drive I would expect it to show up on the screen where you select the boot order. On my desktop the HD's and Optical Drive are all on SATA so they all show up in the boot order screen.
at this point, i agree.
rday