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.
[2] - https://gist.github.com/dlangille/92db3ee52a710c735423ece715addeff
[3] - https://gist.github.com/dlangille/961b154183c64fef4b39b50870c3b1f2
[4] - https://twitter.com/DarkainMX/status/1619133614599602177
@dvl Isn't NVMe just SSD connected to PCIe? (via the controller chip?) That is to say NVMe *is* PCIe.
@david one would like to think so.