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On Thursday, April 07, 2016 07:41:35 PM Remy Blank wrote: |
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> peter@××××××××××××.uk wrote on 2016-04-07 17:24: |
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> > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 |
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> > 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 |
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> > seems 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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> Make sure you have BLK_DEV_NVME compiled into your kernel (not as a |
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> module), and that you pass the right device name as a root FS to the |
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> kernel. It might also help to use a very recent kernel. |
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> FWIW, I'm writing this from a laptop that boots from two NVMe devices in |
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> RAID 1 configuration, with kernel 4.4.5. |
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> -- Remy |
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Remy (and others), |
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I have been trying to get Gentoo to boot from an NVME device, but I am getting |
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stuck. |
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The kernel-config I use will boot when the root-device is on a spinning sata- |
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disk and I can see the NVME device. |
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When using the same config with the root-partition on the NVME, it fails, |
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complaining it can't find the root-partition. |
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The NVME driver is loaded into the kernel (not module). |
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Does anyone have a working config for a 4.4.6 kernel or any other version that |
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is currently in portage? |
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Along with the boot-options being used? |
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Many thanks, |
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Joost |
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