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From: Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:06:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: NVMe as boot device.
To: Andrey Cherkashin <andoriyu@gmail.com>
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Yes but you need to boot with efi as that's the old thing mode that
supports nvme boot. We have an nvme only ZFS box and it works fine

On Thursday, 15 September 2016, Andrey Cherkashin <andoriyu@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know FreeBSD supports NVMe as root device, but does it support it as
> boot? Can=E2=80=99t find any confirmation.