On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 22:26 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 01:43:49PM -0700, Humberto Hassey wrote: > > Hello I am a Debian user and just bought a nice laptop from system 76, I > > wiped ubuntu and proceed to install Debian, well it turns our that Debian > > does not recognize my network card, and the Grub packed on the installer > > does not recognize the NVMe drive correctly, so I can not boot, nor connect > > to the internet in order to download the grub-efi from backports.. > > > > I tried getting a shell from the install DVD and chrooting into the > > installation to install the previously downloaded grub-efi-amd64 and > > linux-image 4.7xxx from backports, but the installation fails saying there > > are unmet dependencies... > > > On new hardware, you might be better of trying stretch instead, which > is probably only about half a year or so from release anyhow. > > I know NVMe install works, because I tried it, with the testing (stretch) > installer. Jessie does not support it, at least last I checked.
That really ought to be fixed in jessie, if it doesn't require big changes to grub (and whatever else). I already did a stable update of initramfs-tools to make it handle nvme devices properly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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