pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote on 2016-04-08 11:01: > 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 :-)
Now now, I was merely providing evidence that what you are trying to do actually works. ... But yeah, it's fast :) -- Remy
