First Boot After Install – WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB – Fails ?
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.
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Is the drive seen if you boot from a rescue disk? Post screenshots and details of errors.
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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,