Hey everyone
I own an HP envy laptop that rocks an intel 11th gen CPU and I was unable to install Solus on the laptop because it seems like the distro is not able to find any drive,
I've had similar problems with windows where I had to manually copy / load the driver (Intel Rapid Storage Technology ),
I was wondering if the latest Solus release included such a firmware in the version of the kernel it uses

Intel RST is a Windows technology that frequently (usually?) doesn't work with Linux. As far as I know, the Linux kernel does not support Intel RST. I don't know if that will change in the future.

The usual solution is to go into BIOS and change from RAID to ACHI (see bottom of page).

nolan The operative paragraph in the document you cited is this:

"The recommended software RAID implementation in Linux* is the open source MD RAID package. Intel has enhanced MD RAID to support RST metadata and OROM and it is validated and supported by Intel for server platforms. There is a growing interest at OEMs in having Intel extend the validation and support for RST on mobile, desktop and workstation platforms in a Windows and Linux dual-boot environment."

In a nutshell: At this point, (1) Intel has not provided kernel support for RST, although there is "growing support" for Intel to provide support; (2) the kernel does not support RST but server users can use an open source non-Intel package to set up RAID; and (3) although it might be theoretically possible for a knowledgeable user to set up RST/RAID on a desktop/laptop, it is unsupported and at the desktop/laptop owner's risk.

    a month later

    infrandomness Well, I don't either, so I'm not sure why I'm having to install that, I only have a single nvme too

    Nothing to install. If you can't see your drive from the installer, change SATA settings from RAID to AHCI. If you can see your drive from the installer, nothing to do. Don't overthink.