On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an > > M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions > > /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... > > > > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I > > get as far as a kernel panic. Grub finds the kernel and starts it, but > > it seems to be passing a null root device name. > What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an > initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can > investigate?
Grub.cfg looks all right to me: at least, it does include a sensible root= value. I never see a grub screen - it just starts the current kernel. I did wonder about an initramfs and I'm trying it now. I've also followed Remy's advice and used gentoo-sources-4.4.6. So far I've spent about 30 hours scratching my head, clutching at straws and going round in circles. I'm getting dizzy. :-) -- Rgds Peter linux counter 5290, 1994/04/23
