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  10. NVME SSD won't boot

    in Installation Help

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    Hello Everyone. My first post ^^. Let me know if there's a special formatting that I ought to follow.

     

    Kernel: Linux sysresccd 4.1.20-alt472-amd64 #2 SMP Sat Mar 19 13:39:36 UTC 2016 x86_64 Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1505M v5 @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

     

    I have a Dell Precision 7710 with a NVME SSD and Skylake. Been trying for 1.5 weeks to get Gentoo installed but can only get to the same error step that I get with Funtoo. Been curious about Funtoo and saw it had boot-update which I thought might fix the issue.

     

    After I select the Funtoo kernel on the grub menu it starts loading modules but then stops. Here's a retying of the message from a badly taken pic (possible misspellings): 

    >> Hint: Use parameter scandelay[=seconds] if you need waiting ....
>> Activating iSCSI via iBFT
iscsistart: transport lcass version 2.0-870. iscsid version 2...
Could not get boot entry.
>> Determining root device...
!! Block device /dev/nvmen0n1p3 is not a valid root device...
!! Could not find the root block device in .
   Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same, type "shell" for
shell, or "q" to skip

    "shell" gives me a working BusyBox. Going into the BusyBox

    - 'lsmod | grep nvme' -> revals nothing

    - 'modprobe nvme'  -> says it can't find the driver

     

     

    Things I've tried:

    - Install kernel (debian-sources w/ genkernel) with NVM Express block device built in

    - Using UUID (with and without quotes) in /boot/grub/grub.cfg instead of /dev/nvmen0n1p3 -> Stops at the same part   

    - Tried 'modprobe nvd'  -> couldn't find driver

     

     

    fstab

    /dev/nvme0n1p1		/boot		vfat		noauto,noatime	1 2
/dev/nvme0n1p2		none		swap		sw		0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p3		/		ext4		noatime		0 1

    /boot/grub/grub.cfg

    set timeout=3

  insmod part_gpt
  insmod fat
  set root=(hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1,gpt1)
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3C56-1E23
if loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2; then
   set gfxmode=640x480
   insmod all_video
   terminal_output gfxterm
fi

set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=blue/cyan

menuentry "Funtoo Linux genkernel - kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1" {
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod fat
  set root=(hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1,gpt1)
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3C56-1E23
  linux /kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1 rootfstype=auto real_root=UUID="8ee40964-a006-478a-bb3b-81aba54d0ddb" rootfstype=ext4
  initrd /initramfs-debian-sources-x86_64-4.4.6-1
  set gfxpayload=keep
}

menuentry "Funtoo Linux genkernel - kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.5.2-1" {
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod fat
  set root=(hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1,gpt1)
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3C56-1E23
  linux /kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-4.5.2-1 rootfstype=auto real_root=UUID=8ee40964-a006-478a-bb3b-81aba54d0ddb rootfstype=ext4
  initrd /initramfs-debian-sources-x86_64-4.5.2-1
  set gfxpayload=keep
}

menuentry "Funtoo Linux genkernel - kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-3.19.3-1~exp1" {
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod fat
  set root=(hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1,gpt1)
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3C56-1E23
  linux /kernel-debian-sources-x86_64-3.19.3-1~exp1 rootfstype=auto real_root=/dev/nvme0n1p3 rootfstype=ext4
  initrd /initramfs-debian-sources-x86_64-3.19.3-1~exp1
  set gfxpayload=keep
}
set default=1

    Also of note:

    - The nvme module and ext4, is all I touched on Funtoo

    in what way these touched?

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