Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVMe drive and grub

[J. Roeleveld]

On June 16, 2016 7:43:10 AM GMT+02:00, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>On Thursday, April 07, 2016 07:41:35 PM Remy Blank wrote:
>> peter@××××××××××××.uk wrote on 2016-04-07 17:24:
>> > 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, ...
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Can anyone offer some advice to help me get past this?
>>
>> Make sure you have BLK_DEV_NVME compiled into your kernel (not as a
>> module), and that you pass the right device name as a root FS to the
>> kernel. It might also help to use a very recent kernel.
>>
>> FWIW, I'm writing this from a laptop that boots from two NVMe devices
>in
>> RAID 1 configuration, with kernel 4.4.5.
>>
>> -- Remy
>
>Remy (and others),
>
>I have been trying to get Gentoo to boot from an NVME device, but I am
>getting
>stuck.
>
>The kernel-config I use will boot when the root-device is on a spinning
>sata-
>disk and I can see the NVME device.
>When using the same config with the root-partition on the NVME, it
>fails,
>complaining it can't find the root-partition.
>
>The NVME driver is loaded into the kernel (not module).
>
>Does anyone have a working config for a 4.4.6 kernel or any other
>version that
>is currently in portage?
>
>Along with the boot-options being used?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Joost

Ignore this.
Got it working, had to enable UEFI first for the NVME device in bios....

Problem caused by silly BIOS devs at ASUS....

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