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Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com> wrote : |
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> peter@××××××××××××.uk |
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> 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 /dev/nvme0n1p1, |
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> /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... |
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> > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get as |
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> far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but it seems to be |
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> 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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Yes, I have that compiled in, and the kernel is 4.1.15-r1. |
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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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Now, that's just showing off :-) |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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