My New EQR9 supports two nvme’s. The “buried” one is the default Boot Drive. since BeeLink supports Windows, they have set up the BIOS “first choice” is to boot to this drive, which opens up the Windows Boot Manager.

As someone who enjoys Linux, I want to install a Linux distro to the second (easily accessible) nvme drive so I can dual boot into Linux when I want to without going through trying to get the Windows Boot Manager to allow Dual booting through a menu which stays up for a designated amount of time before automatically booting into Windows.
I burned a Linux Distro onto a USB drive, then attempted to stop the bootup process using the designated keystrokes: F7.Del quickly to get access to the USB drive which contained the installation iso. It didn’t work in any case as always get the same three choices: The windows boot manager on the nvme that is hard to get to, onboard UFEI/EFI Shell, or enter SETUP. I then went into the Boot section of the BIOS and attempted to switch the Boot porders around (There are many choices. I even disabled some of the choices. As I have often done this with success with other BIOSes in the past, I’m comfortable with what I did. However, no matter what I did, I always got the same three choices to boot into. I think BeeLink has frozen access to making changes to to the Boot order. Please inform me of a way any viewer has overridden this problem as they must have gone through the same disappointments, or would support-pc please check into getting the BIOS software support people change the BIOS to allow using boot support to other devices.

After I posted this I copied everything and sent it on to support-pc. June replied with a link to a Youtube video on two basic ways to install Linux mint on to a separate drive in a system that also supports Windows. Before I got the reply from support-pc, I’d figured perhaps the way Bee-Link sets up the BIOS that I HAD to use RUFUS to image the Linux mint on to a USB, so I went back through all of that, and imaged to a real USB stick as opposed to the USB to SATA drive (60GB) I’d imaged to using ETCHER and got Linux mint installed. BUT… with all my experimenting, I also recognized that the BIOS furnished with my machine didn’t show any drives attached to my machine, whether via the second nvme port or a USB port until I finally installed the Samsung 3.0 USB drive to a USB port on the back side of the EQR unit and rebooted using the F7 key to get to the boot menu. After I installed Linux mint on the second nvme and rebooted, that drive was recognized in the BIOS Boot menu as “Ubuntu…Corsair nvmen1p1”. My reply to June was longer than anything I’ve posted here, so if you can, get her to forward it to you or work with me via PMes. I even addressed another poster’s message with my thoughts about using a Mini that has two nvme slots as a NAS from the standpoint of feasibility as the cost of SSD’s comes down (Just as the EQR is touted as being able to handle 8TB using 2 4TB disks, 8TB SSDs are being sold in the $600 apiece range (and I see no reason that an EQR wouldn’t handle 2 8TB nvme drives or even 2 16TB drives as a basic mostly read file server).