Without 'nvme scan' the ESP on the NVMe drive is not found early. EFI variables cannot be persisted.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Cannot persist EFI variables without system partition ** Booting bootflow '<NULL>' with efi_mgr Loading Boot0000 'mmc 0' failed EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image Boot failed (err=-14) scanning bus for devices... ** Booting bootflow 'nvme#1.blk#1.bootdev.part_1' with efi Booting /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTRISCV64.EFI error: no suitable video mode found. GNU GRUB version 2.12 With 'nmve scan' booting works as expected. Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 ** Booting bootflow '<NULL>' with efi_mgr Loading Boot0000 'mmc 0' failed Loading Boot0001 'nvme 0' failed Booting: nvme 1 error: no suitable video mode found. GNU GRUB version 2.12 Reported by Yuri Zaporozhets <yu...@vodafonemail.de> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com> --- v2: mention board in subject --- configs/sifive_unmatched_defconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configs/sifive_unmatched_defconfig b/configs/sifive_unmatched_defconfig index 058e5fab683..1ea744ffa80 100644 --- a/configs/sifive_unmatched_defconfig +++ b/configs/sifive_unmatched_defconfig @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CONFIG_FIT=y CONFIG_SPL_LOAD_FIT_ADDRESS=0x84000000 CONFIG_BOOTSTD_DEFAULTS=y CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT=y -CONFIG_PREBOOT="setenv fdt_addr ${fdtcontroladdr};fdt addr ${fdtcontroladdr};" +CONFIG_PREBOOT="setenv fdt_addr ${fdtcontroladdr};fdt addr ${fdtcontroladdr};nvme scan" CONFIG_DEFAULT_FDT_FILE="sifive/hifive-unmatched-a00.dtb" CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE=256 CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE=276 -- 2.45.2