Hi all,

I’ve got a R740xd which I’m trying to use a NVME m.2 drive as its primary boot device. The m.2 drive is a Samsung 980 EVO (PCI 3.0) and is installed into one of the following PCI-E cards (Dell SSD NVMe M.2 PCI-e 2x Solid State Storage Adapter Card 23PX6 NTRCY). The m.2 is detectable by multiple OS’s during their installation process so the card is working. As a recent test, I installed Ubuntu on the drive but, as soon as the system reboots, the R740 doesnt detect a boot device. If I go into the boot manager, I can see “ubuntu” listed but its greyed out.

Has anyone had any success booting from a NVME m.2 drive using this PCI card in a R740? Do I need to be using a Dell branded NVME drive instead? Is there something else that I’ve missed?

  • dxx255@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This definitely works quite well even on a r720xd! But as far as i know a r740 should be able to boot directly without the need of clover

    • G4L3A@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I will consider this if all other avenues fail. But, as you mentioned, surely the R740 can boot directly without requiring clover.