[GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk?

[William Park]

When USB booting was in its infancy, you had to give time for USB to 
settle down and come online.  "rootdelay=" kernel option was what you 
used.  Try that.

On 11/20/21 1:56 PM, Peter King via talk wrote:
> Thanks to Giles and Alex for reporting their experiences, with Fedora and
> Ubuntu respectively.  Since the computer runs off a live USB flash drive
> with Arch, it is capable of doing so -- it really must be something very
> very particular in getting the nvme disk recognized early enough on in the
> boot process, something that these other distros take care of automatically.
> 
> The "obvious" suggestion, given the symptoms, are that some driver needs to
> be loaded right away to allow linux to recognize the nvme disk as bootable.
> The culprits most often suggested are the nvme and the vmd modules.  I did
> try putting them in mkinitcpio and then rebuilding the initramfs image that
> Arch then uses to boot, without success.  But perhaps I should try that
> again with a little more patience and care.
> 
> I have Arch running just fine on all my other computers, having fallen back
> there when I finally ran out of patience with Gentoo over some of their
> architecture decisions, so if possible I'd like to run Arch on this one.
> Giles's dual-boot suggestion is very clever and I may try that if another
> assault on the initramfs doesn't pan out.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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