Are you booting a Dell R730 (or similar) from NVMe? Details please!

My next goal: boot from PCIe slots on a Dell R730. I'm already doing that on a Dell R720, nothing special was required. [1]

I have looked at NVMe booting in the past, but abandoned that idea in favor of PCIe. [2]

This time, I created a bootable image using mfsBSD's zfsinstall [3] but I've been unable to tell the R730 to boot from it.

I have unable to get the NVMe drive to show up in the Boot option for the R730. I have tried both UEFI and BIOS boot modes (see System BIOS Settings | Boot Settings).

Someone had mentioned Dell makes a "4x NVMe carrier that uses a single 16x slot with bifurcation." [4] I think that's Dell part number: 80G5N - those are selling on eBay for $100+ -Before I purchase, I'd like to get verification from someone that they work.

[1] - dan.langille.org/2019/10/11/in

[2] - gist.github.com/dlangille/92db

[3] - gist.github.com/dlangille/961b

[4] - twitter.com/DarkainMX/status/1

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@dvl I do know that HP has their BIOS PCI ID locked to not boot other people's NVMEs.. so maybe dell is doing that here?

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