Hi guys.
I'm trying to install Centos 9 Stream on a nvme - before I start tampering with other OSes - would anybody have an idea why... after a seemingly successful installation OS wont boot - hardware sees nvme drive, bios does - it does not see new/any EFI boot entry? To make it more bizarre - virtually identical hardware, only CPU is Ryzen Pro 3900 and not 3700 - and same Centos succeeded, it boots & starts fine. I'm going to try again with the latest available ISO as of today, but in the meanwhile - I'm hoping you can share some thoughts/ideas.
many thanks, L.
Is the drive seen if you boot from a rescue disk? Post screenshots and details of errors.
Chris
On 1/16/2024 8:38 AM, lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm trying to install Centos 9 Stream on a nvme - before I start tampering with other OSes - would anybody have an idea why... after a seemingly successful installation OS wont boot - hardware sees nvme drive, bios does - it does not see new/any EFI boot entry? To make it more bizarre - virtually identical hardware, only CPU is Ryzen Pro 3900 and not 3700 - and same Centos succeeded, it boots & starts fine. I'm going to try again with the latest available ISO as of today, but in the meanwhile - I'm hoping you can share some thoughts/ideas.
many thanks, L. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 16/01/2024 15:43, Christopher Wensink wrote:
Is the drive seen if you boot from a rescue disk? Post screenshots and details of errors.
Chris
Hi. that is one thing I did not try. I should have added - where booting 4TB fails, on same hardware other, previously used & smaller NVMes worked & still do work, when put back it. I'll report back tomorrow.
NVMe requires EFI booting. In some UEFI implementations, if you say "BIOS + UEFI" or however it puts it, CentOS will put a `/biosboot` partition on the disk, not `/boot/efi`, giving exactly the symptom you report.
Put it into pure UEFI mode, ensure the partitioning step creates `/boot/efi`, and I bet your symptom will go away,