Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVMe drive and grub

[<peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com> wrote :

> peter@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