I have several workstations at the office running Ubuntu 20.04LTS off NVMes using a completely default UEFI configuration (Secure boot enabled). So the issue is not Linux in general but Arch in particular.
> On Nov 20, 2021, at 10:37, Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 21:09, Peter King via talk <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Anyone had success with getting linux to boot from an nvme disk? I've >> been fighting with UEFI and Arch Linux all day now, trying to get a new >> computer to even recognize the nvme disk as a boot device. (Last time I >> encountered this problem I gave up and installed an ordinary HD to boot >> from.) For what it's worth, I have disabled Secure Boot, reformatted the >> nvme disk to have a new EFI partition without Windows, a swap partition, >> and a root partition; I'm trying to use efibootmgr (so no loading of a >> further bootloader), and, as far as I can tell, identified all the right >> partitions by device name or PARTUUID. Still no go. I even tried adding >> the parameter nvme_load=YES into the "root" part of the efibootmgr, and >> also adding nvme and vmd as modules in mkinitcpio.conf, all without any >> success. If necessary I'll just punt and install a regular HD to boot >> from, but that rather takes away from having an nvme disk in the first >> place. >> >> (Over the years I've learning to approach installing Linux with fear and >> loathing, with almost all the problems being with the bootloader -- from >> LILO through GRUB and GRUB2 now down to UEFI.) >> >> Any suggestions welcome! I didn't want to spend my weekend doing this. > > Hi Peter. > > I'm pretty sure I have Linux installed on an NVMe disk somewhere. I > apologize that I'm not sure where: most of my machines are "older," > but not all - however, I have enough of them that I'm not sure where > that NVMe disk is. The point is: if it's in this house, I installed > Linux on it and it evidently wasn't a problem because I don't remember > it. > > I would suggest downloading and installing a recent Fedora. You've > chosen Arch: that's a hard row to hoe. I'm not saying you should > change distros, but installing Fedora abstracts away a LOT of the > difficult work Arch insists you do by hand (I've installed both, > recently). If installing Fedora works, A) you've proven this computer > can be made to work with Linux, and B) the hard drive may be formatted > in a useful way for another attempt at Arch. Or you could (and I > think this might be wise initially) install Arch as a secondary OS to > Fedora. With that in mind, you could use Fedora to format two 32G OS > partitions, and an all-the-rest-of-the-drive partition as /home/. > > Just a thought. > > -- > Giles > https://www.gilesorr.com/ <https://www.gilesorr.com/> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > <https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>
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