Bug#785149: grub-installer: NVMe boot drives not supported
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:52:51PM -0500, Z G wrote:
> Following up on Jeremy's question above, does Debian 8.3.0 (image as of
> early 2016) include a fix?
>
> Alternatively, could someone (Matteo?) indicate the steps to fix this
> during the install process? Not sure if you're patching the installer code
> and recompiling during the install process or something else.
I tried with the stretch installer in late December, and that worked
on NVMe (which is good since this was a few weeks after it was supposed
to have been fixed). I tested on a Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 on an
Asus Z170-A.
It did not occur to me to test the jessie installer since I simply
assumed it didn't do NVMe. Also I was under the impression that there
are issues with the graphics in the skylake CPUs that needed a 4.3+
kernel, which ruled out Jessie for that machine.
According to
http://www.poweredbyjeff.com/2015/10/29/Intel-750-SSD-in-Debian-Jessie/ it
needs a backported grub and kernel to work properly in Jessie. Not sure.
It does have steps that is says works.
Of course if the kernel has some issues with NVMe, then I suspect getting
jessie fixed isn't that likely, but at least backports for the kernel
is still an option then.
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Len Sorensen
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