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From: Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:57:40
Message-Id: CALpL90NDzaD-FytpeYuc5gX1J85oN2C+QbgA==oomFUZEDP5Nw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub by peter@prh.myzen.co.uk
1 On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ...
5 >
6 > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get as far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but it seems to be passing a null root device name.
7 >
8
9 What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an
10 initramfs and letting it drop you
11 to its rescue shell so that you can investigate?

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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>