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On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > Hello list, |
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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 |
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> > get as far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but |
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> > it seems to be passing a null root device name. |
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> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an |
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> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can |
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> investigate? |
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Grub.cfg looks all right to me: at least, it does include a sensible root= |
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value. |
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I never see a grub screen - it just starts the current kernel. I did wonder |
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about an initramfs and I'm trying it now. I've also followed Remy's advice |
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and used gentoo-sources-4.4.6. |
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So far I've spent about 30 hours scratching my head, clutching at straws and |
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going round in circles. I'm getting dizzy. :-) |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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linux counter 5290, 1994/04/23 |
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