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cynar
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Adding SCSI / SATA disk to NVMe disk breaks BIOS boot

I have a (working) VM with a persistent independent NVMe hard disk.

Now I am trying to add another disk to that - specifically, either a SCSI or a SATA disk, again persistent and independent.

Whenever I do this, booting breaks _at the BIOS == firmware level_, a boot device is no longer found, although the NVMe disk is still present. There is a CD/DVD (IDE) device, but it is not connected, and it does point to an ISO that no longer exists.

Once I remove the SCSI or a SATA disk again, the BIOS is happy to boot off the totally unchanged NVMe device again.

What is the best approach to get a SCSI or a SATA disk added to a VM with an existing NVMe disk, while keeping things booting?

My goal is to switch my existing disk from the VMware virtual NVMe controller (which seems to have issues) to the VMware virtual SCSI controller.

This is VMWare Workstation 17.0.2 (on a Windows 11 Professional host).

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jrp5101
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I have the same issue. 

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