I got the original hardware back. After new round of testing on this hardware (with both Intel and HGST NVMe devices)
Kernel 4.4.0-62-generic commit: 7392f29e5ee5cb8509f20e5ce6cc1e360c486c91 exhibits the issue and kernel fails to boot up. Ignore my earlier result with the same kernel. This is the commit id we have to focus on. Here is a complete list of all the kernels requested for testing in this bug. 4.4.0-59-generic: * Boot up passed * NVMe devices listed in both lspci and "nvme list" commands 4.4.70-040470-generic Mainline * Boot up passed * NVMe devices listed in both lspci and "nvme list" commands 4.4.41-040441-generic: * Boot up passed * NVMe devices listed in both lspci and "nvme list" commands 4.4.0-60-generic: * Boot up passed * NVMe devices NOT listed in both lspci and "nvme list" commands 4.4.0-61-generic: * Boot up passed * NVMe devices listed in both lspci and "nvme list" commands 4.4.0-62-generic commit: 7392f29e5ee5cb8509f20e5ce6cc1e360c486c91 * Boot up FAIL. Kernel does not boot. This is the original issue. Looks like this commit has the bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695780 Title: On VMware ESXi with PCI passthru enabled for Intel NVMe Ubuntu Xenial VM does not boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1695780/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
