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Re: How to BIOS-boot from NVMe device?



On Wed, 7 Sep 2022, Michael van Elst wrote:

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.

Ah, OK.

I did

	# mount -t msdos NAME=EFI-system /efi
	# cd /efi
	# mkdir efi
	# mkdir efi/boot
	# cp /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi efi/boot/
	# cd /
	# umount /efi

I'll give a try later, next time i can open up the case.


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