On Sat, 2024-07-27 at 20:04 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However none of the UUIDs seen by efibootmgr correspond to anything > > on > > any of the drives. > > Re-read my reply. Both of the efibootmgr variables *do* correspond > to > existing UUIDs. > > > > Can you disable the SSD in "BIOS"? > > Yes, but the NVMe drive doesn't appear as a boot option. Removable > > USB > > drives, DVD etc. do appear (and are grayed out) but not the NVMe. > > I wonder if your BIOS supports booting off of NVMe.... > > I guess I could boot Live USB if all else fails, but I'm not sure > > what > > good that would do. > If you can boot off of live media or the rescue option from install > media, you can mount and "chroot" into the new disk and then run > grub2-mkconfig and/or dracut as needed. > > > I'll also try updating the BIOS firmware, just in case. > I'm starting to think your root issue *is* BIOS related. You should > go through all the available options: > - make sure the NVMe is enabled - seems that it is since you *can* > "see" it
It is enabled. When the BIOS shows "storage", the NVMe drive is present. > - make sure the NVMe is set for AHCI and not RAID - again this > doesn't > *seem* to be the problem, but can't hurt to confirm It is set to AHCI. > - make sure the BIOS says the NVMe is bootable. On one of my non-EFI > systems I sometimes have to explicitly add USB thumb drives to the > list of bootable disks. > It doesn't say it's bootable. This is the basic problem. It doesn't show in the list of bootable drives and there doesn't appear to be a way to make it show, even though it does appear in the list of storage devices. I find it hard to believe that a motherboard (or BIOS) manufactured less than a year ago can't boot from an NVMe drive. What if I don't have an SSD or SATA drive? This makes no sense. > Another thought - I have heard some systems don't like having more > than 1 EFI partition across multiple disks. Maybe this is the case? > The system scans the disks, looks at the SSD first, finds *the* EFI > partition and never looks any farther? If this is the case, > disabling > the SSD would allow it to find the NVMe. Consider it a shot in the > dark. I tried disabling the SSD (in the bootable drives list). It made no difference. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
