[CentOS] centos 7 and nvme

Wed Apr 19 21:23:36 UTC 2017
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Apr 19, 2017, at 4:25 PM, jsl6uy js16uy <js16uy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, and hope all is well
> Has anyone installed / on an nvme ssd for Cent 7? Would anyone know if that
> is supported?
> I have installed using Arch Linux, but at the time, mid last year, had to
> patch grub to recognize nvme. Arch is obviously running a much more recent
> kernel.
> Not afraid todo some empirical leg work. Just asking if anyone had tried
> already

I installed RHEL 7.3 (same kernel as CentOS7) and it worked fine except for the fact that ‘efibootmgr’ defaults to using /dev/sda, and the disk is called /dev/nvme0n1, so doing stuff like changing the default boot back to Windows (dual boot) didn’t work without some tweaking.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>