working my way through quirks with fedora 23 on new ASUS gaming laptop G752VL-DH71

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com>:

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>
> On 01/19/16 19:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> Quoting Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>:
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>>> 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