Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com> wrote : > pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk > wrote on 2016-04-07 17:24: > > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 > interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions /dev/nvme0n1p1, > /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... > > > > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get as > far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but it seems to be > passing a null root device name. > > > > Can anyone offer some advice to help me get past this? > > Make sure you have BLK_DEV_NVME compiled into your kernel (not as a > module), and that you pass the right device name as a root FS to the > kernel. It might also help to use a very recent kernel.
Yes, I have that compiled in, and the kernel is 4.1.15-r1. > FWIW, I'm writing this from a laptop that boots from two NVMe devices in > RAID 1 configuration, with kernel 4.4.5. Now, that's just showing off :-) -- Rgds Peter
