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.

  • SilentDecode@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The R740 should be able to boot from an NVMe drive (whether this is M.2 or U.2).

    1. Is the BIOS set to UEFI boot mode?
    2. Is SecureBoot enabled?
    3. Is there a preffered PCIe slot available for this?
    4. Have you tried another adapter? Not sure if yours is supported.