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On Thursday 7th April 2016 I wrote: |
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> I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an |
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> M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions |
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> /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... |
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> After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get |
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> as far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but it seems |
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> to be passing a null root device name. |
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> Can anyone offer some advice to help me get past this? |
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The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. |
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The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use sys-boot/gummiboot. |
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Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief not to have to |
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grapple with grub's baroque complexity and to be able to return to the simple |
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booting I remember from years ago. |
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I'd spent five long days wrestling with grub, going round in circles and |
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getting nowhere, before I was pointed to gummiboot. |
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Let's hope this helps someone else get a new computer booting. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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