From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Apr 16 18:23:50 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBDE2C43C8 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:23:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4937051jj8z3PVy; Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:23:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.206] (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d2a42068 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: support of PCIe NVME drives To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Kurt Jaeger Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <5a20f111-b2f5-c1a1-acdf-86df43d79ace@quip.cz> <20200416180705.GB39563@home.opsec.eu> <36c9c502-f9b6-fd3d-3ac2-80ab18f8d420@quip.cz> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <37408503-c462-97fa-e702-f23fed366f83@nomadlogic.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:23:41 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36c9c502-f9b6-fd3d-3ac2-80ab18f8d420@quip.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4937051jj8z3PVy X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.06 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[239.162.243.23.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.76)[ip: (-9.23), ipnet: 174.136.96.0/20(-4.13), asn: 25795(-0.41), country: US(-0.05)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:23:50 -0000 On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: >> Hi! >> >>> I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with >>> only 2 >>> NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not >>> see the >>> drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME drives for >>> installation a later for booting? >> >> I use 2 NVMe drives as zfs mirror to boot from on my testbox, >> but it runs CURRENT, since approx. November 2018. >> >> So maybe try it with 12.1 ? I know, that does not help if you are asked >> to install 11.3, but at least it gives you an idea... >> > > I tried 12.1 few minutes ago but the result is the same - no NVME > drives listed. > Should I try something with kernel modules, some sysctl tweaks? > Should I try UEFI boot? (I never did) > I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop yesterday which has a nvme root device, it was detected by the 12-STABLE snapshot I used to boot from.  no other modifications were necessary on my end. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA