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Dell Wyse: Alpine boot issue

Alpine failed at initramfs until the storage mode was switched from RAID back to AHCI.

By Clement 25 March 2026 1 minute read

After installing Alpine Linux, boot failed at initramfs because root could not be mounted.
During troubleshooting, dmesg indicated switching storage mode from RAID to AHCI.
BIOS/UEFI settings were reset to factory defaults.
Storage mode was set to AHCI.
Result: issue resolved.