Re: Booting from NVMe controller enters GRUB rescue

[vinayak holikatti]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:48 PM, vinayak holikatti
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:53 AM, vinayak holikatti
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> We have developed Legacy OptionROM for NVMe controller device. We are
>>>> able to boot to all Windows 7 and later OS. But we are facing issue in
>>>> booting Fedora 20 x86_64 OS. Fedora 20 gets installed successfully on
>>>> NVMe device. While booting from NVMe device we are observing error as
>>>> follows and enters grub rescue. We are clueless about what is
>>>> happening here. We would like to know how to over come this issue and
>>>> boot to Fedora 20 OS from our controller.
>>>>
>>>> "error : no such device: 44d1bf09-4e8a-4f46-aea6-09e364abf5cb.
>>>>  Entering rescue mode...
>>>>  grub_rescue>"
>>>>
>>>
>>> GRUB cannot find filesystem with UUID printed. Some of required
>>> drivers are missing in core.img. What is NVMe? Could you give more
>>> information (is it BIOS compatible? Are you using HDD or some other
>>> media? What is disk layout - any MD, LVM or other RAID partitions?)
>>
>> Hi Andrey,
>>
>> We have taken a log of Bootinfo script as below. Non Volatile Memory
>> Express(NVMe) is PCIe based
>> controller. In Linux kernel for this controller there is a driver
>> module present with name nvme.ko. We will
>> start looking at core.img. There is no BIOS support for this device as
>> it is a PCIe plug and play
>> device. We have our Legacy OptionROM support for booting from this 
>> controller.
>>
>
> Does this Legacy OptionROM emulate BIOS disk access? I.e. is this
> device visible as HDD in BIOS?

Due to our Legacy OptionROM the disk is visible in BIOS boot menu.

>
> On BIOS platform GRUB is using biosdisk module; it relies on BIOS disk
> calls (INT 13). I think I remember cases when it was not completely
> implemented by option ROMs.

We have implemented all the INT13 routine functions supported functions
AH=00,02,03,08,41,48,42,43



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Regards,
Vinayak Holikatti