Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OFFTOPIC}: Does the MSI Tomahawk MAX is able to boot from a M2 SSD?
Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:13:29
Message-Id:	`54C36E2C-3689-45B1-87CB-8311B47A848C@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] [OFFTOPIC}: Does the MSI Tomahawk MAX is able to boot from a M2 SSD? by tuxic@posteo.de

1	> On Mar 19, 2020, at 23:29, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2	>
3	> Beside speed and cost:
4	> Is there any difference between using a M2 SATA SSD
5	> or a M2 NVMe SSD?
6
7	I can tell you there's a huge difference in speed as NVMe is essentially the same as plugging directly to PCI-E. m.2 SATA is basically for backward compatibility with older OS.
8	>
9	> Does these drives are working with UEFI boot and
10	> Legacy boot when it comes to boot Linux?
11
12	You shouldn't have a problem with either. I've been booting with my own signed Grub for years with UEFI secure boot.
13
14	If for some reason the motherboard won't take your self-made certificates/etc, return it.
15
16	Andrew