# Does the Framework 13 motherboard support booting from two separate M.2 cards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Tags:** linux-mint\ **Created:** [December 14, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798 "2024-12-14T08:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/1 "2024-12-14T08:39:15Z")
Which Linux distro are you using? Mint Which release version? (if rolling release without a release version, skip this question) (If rolling release, last date updated?) Which kernel are you using? Which BIOS version are you using? I don’t know, I haven’t got my hands on the laptop yet! Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using? (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series, Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1, 13th Gen Intel® Core™ , 12th Gen Intel® Core™, 11th Gen Intel® Core™) Ryzen 7 787OU ---
**Author:** ![ethicalcomputing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ethicalcomputing/32/31397_2.png) [@ethicalcomputing](https://community.frame.work/u/ethicalcomputing)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 9:14am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/2 "2024-12-14T09:14:06Z")
+1 Me Too. I have one on the way and will also be trying Mint first. Are you thinking about Mint on 1 and Windoze on another? ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/3 "2024-12-14T09:29:09Z")
That’s the plan, I’d love to ditch Windows completely, but as I need to have my OS to be easy to deal with and as my Linux skills are toddler-level, I need a backup… ---
**Author:** ![starquake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/starquake/32/30098_2.png) [@starquake](https://community.frame.work/u/starquake)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 10:23am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/4 "2024-12-14T10:23:03Z")
The current FW13 motherboards only have 1 M.2 slot. ---
**Author:** ![ethicalcomputing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ethicalcomputing/32/31397_2.png) [@ethicalcomputing](https://community.frame.work/u/ethicalcomputing)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 10:54am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/5 "2024-12-14T10:54:04Z")
Thanks @starquake yes I tried to look at the spec but couldn’t see it. @paul_fisher you can use a virtual machine to run Windows, this is what I do at home, or I can remote desktop into a Windoze PC using Remmina. Happy to help if you need a pointer. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/6 "2024-12-14T12:03:07Z")
Curses! I thought they had two slots. I tried with a VM on another machine and the problem is that I need sound and video and they are super tricky on a VM. I hadn’t thought about Remote Desktop, though. Maybe that might work… ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/7 "2024-12-14T12:03:56Z")
Thanks for the advice, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/9 "2024-12-14T15:43:44Z")
There is that, but I would have preferred a separate drive as I have been bitten by MBR problems before… ---
**Author:** ![Morpheus636](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@Morpheus636](https://community.frame.work/u/Morpheus636)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/10 "2024-12-14T15:50:24Z")
MBR is a legacy spec that is not present on Framework products — they use EFI, which is specifically designed to work with multiple OSes. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/11 "2024-12-14T18:03:13Z")
Shows what I know! Great, problem solved then… ---
**Author:** ![ethicalcomputing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ethicalcomputing/32/31397_2.png) [@ethicalcomputing](https://community.frame.work/u/ethicalcomputing)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/12 "2024-12-14T19:15:19Z")
Remmina supports playing remote audio locally, I just tested it and it seems to work okay. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/13 "2024-12-15T08:27:06Z")
Excellent! So I have two possible options, I’ll try them both and see what works best for me. Thanks for all your help everybody and I’ll let you know how I get on when I finally get my hands on the machine in February (long story!)… ---
**Author:** ![ethicalcomputing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/ethicalcomputing/32/31397_2.png) [@ethicalcomputing](https://community.frame.work/u/ethicalcomputing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/14 "2024-12-17T06:27:49Z")
Hey @paul_fisher just an FYI - I got my FW13 yesterday and after trialling it with Ubuntu for about 10 minutes I just had to ditch it and put on Mint instead. So far I have found no out of the box support (in Mint) for the webcam or Fingerprint reader (these both worked in Ubuntu) so if I suss those out I’ll let you know. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/15 "2024-12-17T07:06:32Z")
Thanks giving the up-to-date and keep me posted on your progress with Mint, please. That was my first choice anyway. Either way, I see that they’ve released a dual M. 2 adapter for the Framework 16, so with a bit of luck they might release one for the 13 by the time I finally get my hands on mind, so I can go back to plan A! ---
**Author:** ![Fraoch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/fraoch/32/6364_2.png) [@Fraoch](https://community.frame.work/u/Fraoch)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/16 "2024-12-17T13:52:06Z")
> [@paul\_fisher](#): > > so with a bit of luck they might release one for the 13 Sorry, but that seems very unlikely given the space required and the space available. The 13 and the 16 are very different. And even on the 16, this dual M.2 adapter needed the expansion bay. Unless the expansion bay concept is applied to the 13, making all existing 13s incompatible, there’s just no space. As a personal note I’ve been running Mint 21 and now 22 on the 11th gen, 12th gen, AMD and Core Ultra 1 without many major issues. Webcam and fingerprint reader both work fine. Framework has given a 13 to the Mint developers so integration will get even better. ---
**Author:** ![paul\_fisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@paul\_fisher](https://community.frame.work/u/paul_fisher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/17 "2024-12-17T14:11:09Z")
Hi, I had a suspicion that was going to be the case… Oh well, I can always do it using separate partitions… Thanks for the feedback anyway ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/1X/64c81a89f963ddb07633887baceb642a4b056046.png) [@system](https://community.frame.work/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/does-the-framework-13-motherboard-support-booting-from-two-separate-m-2-cards/61798/18 "2025-06-15T14:11:40Z")
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