impossible to boot NVME and RAID

[kinto]

Yes, I tried F9.

For clarity I attach both the picture of the BIOS and the picture of the Boot Menu that appears after F9.
F9 Menu 
Bios Boot Menu 

To be precise, the blue cheese screen that appears is the “Inaccesible Boot Device” screen.

It all happens after you enable “Configure Storage Controller for VMD” in System Options to then configure RAID1.

Configure Storage Controller for VMD 

Thank you very much.

[DGroves]

since you will not answer my question on manually selecting the boot device on startup i can offer no more help other than below

“Intel® VMD is an Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor feature

that enables direct control and management of NVMe SSDs

from the PCIe bus without additional hardware adaptors. ”

enabling the VMD driver also requires the Intel RST driver

and again  is only for NVME devices not SATA devices

disable VMD, and you should no longer have any issues

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057787/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-m...

[kinto]

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@DGroves wrote:

since you will not answer my question on manually selecting the boot device on startup i can offer no more help other than below

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Maybe I misunderstood. I thought your request was to press F9 at startup to see the startup menu. But I guess I was wrong.

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@DGroves wrote:

disable VMD, and you should no longer have any issues

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057787/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-m...

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But if I disable it, how can I perform RAID1? I enabled it, because when it was disabled I couldn't perform RAID1 on the two SATA disks.

Thanks again.

[DGroves]

from the HP Z1 user manual: page 97

https://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04076661.pdf

[kinto]

Thank you DGroves for the suggestion.

Starting on page 98 of the pdf it says to boot the system and press F10.

This takes me to the BIOS but there is no option regarding the Storage > Storage Options -> Enter -> Select SATA Emulation > RAID+AHCI step.

There is no Storage section at all.

The BIOS appears to be up to date.

Thank you.

[DGroves]

if the sata drives (2 or more) are not attached then the bios will not show any raid options

[kinto]

The disks are, of course, connected to the SATA ports, and I have also tried various connection combinations.

How come I don't have that option in the bios?

Thank you.