Does anyone know how to get this working? There are mixed results when searching online, and my own attempts have failed for various reasons. See Dell PowerEdge R720XD - NVMe boot not working for a similarly mixed discussion on this forum.
From what I’ve read online - there are two ways to get the R720(XD) to boot from an NVMe drive. I’m fine with either, so any help for either would be appreciated.
First, there is a subset of people who (somehow) have some NVMe support in the BIOS, and can just boot straight from NVMe. There has also been some discussion that only certain drives are supported. This didn’t work for me. I have not modded my BIOS, although if anyone here can link a guide and an NVMe module I can try (Or I could try extracting a module from the R730, since I think the NVMe module should be similar).
Second, you can use Clover on a USB drive to chainload onto the NVMe drive. I have also tried this, although it runs in to a different issue. After Clover attempts to boot into my Debian installation on the NVMe drive, I get the following error:
The current BIOS running on the device is 2.9.0, downloaded directly from Dell’s website, and flashed using the efi loader. I can pull and attach logs/config from Clover, but I don’t know what to look for on the drive.