On June 16, 2016 7:43:10 AM GMT+02:00, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >On Thursday, April 07, 2016 07:41:35 PM Remy Blank 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. >> >> FWIW, I'm writing this from a laptop that boots from two NVMe devices >in >> RAID 1 configuration, with kernel 4.4.5. >> >> -- Remy > >Remy (and others), > >I have been trying to get Gentoo to boot from an NVME device, but I am >getting >stuck. > >The kernel-config I use will boot when the root-device is on a spinning >sata- >disk and I can see the NVME device. >When using the same config with the root-partition on the NVME, it >fails, >complaining it can't find the root-partition. > >The NVME driver is loaded into the kernel (not module). > >Does anyone have a working config for a 4.4.6 kernel or any other >version that >is currently in portage? > >Along with the boot-options being used? > >Many thanks, > >Joost
Ignore this. Got it working, had to enable UEFI first for the NVME device in bios.... Problem caused by silly BIOS devs at ASUS.... -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
