Re: How to BIOS-boot from NVMe device?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>I have completely disconnected the wd0 and wd1 hard drives, and now
>the motherboard/BIOS can't find something (primary boot?).  It does
>not give any helpful messages (no messages at all), but just goes
>back to the interactivve BIOS screens.

It's likely that the BIOS doesn't know about the NVMe device
and you must use UEFI.


>PS I _do_ have a msdos/efi partition on the nvme, but I don't know
>what to put there!  :)

You need:

./efi/boot/bootx64.efi

and you may need to tell the machine that it should do an UEFI boot.