[email protected] 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
