[GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk?

[Peter King]

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.

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Peter King			 	peter.king at utoronto.ca
Department of Philosophy
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The University of Toronto		   (416)-946-3170 ofc
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       CANADA

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