[GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk?

[Peter King]

Long overdue follow-up:


I never succeeded in getting Arch Linux to boot from an nvme disk, or, for
that matter, from a regular SATA disk installed in the system -- trying to
use efistub for the purpose.  Eventually I gave up and installed grub2 on
the SATA disk, it booted the first time through.  I suppose it's something
odd in the Arch install (other people reported success with other distros)
or perhaps my incompetence at using efibootmgr -- though I have set it up
on three other systems with no problems.  Alternatively, it could be some
funky feature of the computer itself (a Lenovo Legion 5 mid-tower).

Anyway, the old ways are sometimes the best; grub2 does the job and only
adds an annoying few seconds to the boot time.  Since I plan to leave the
computer on 24/7, that will only be a very occasional inconvenience.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and advice!

-- 
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Department of Philosophy
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