Supermicro Server fails to boot from NVMe SSD

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I have a SuperMicro server with an NVMe boot drive and an additional SSD for data. I was attempting to install ubuntu on the NVMe boot drive and even though the installation succeeds and the correct boot device is set in the BIOS, the server does not seem to be able to boot the newly installed operating system.

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I have found a solution to this problem. It turns out that it is not possible to boot from NVMe in BIOS mode. Only UEFI is supported. However, my install disk was booted in BIOS mode, so the installer tried to configure things as such. The solution was to go into the BIOS setup, force the boot order to only consider UEFI devices and then re-install the operating system. The Ubuntu Wiki has more information on making sure to install in UEFI mode. In particular, if the boot menu is black rather than purple, you're in UEFI mode.

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The remainder of them gets stuck after the screen blanks right after the MegaRAID BIOS shows its stats and the prompt for WebBIOS etc. It only shows a (non-blinking) cursor and does not proceed. I have waited for a really long time to see a BIOS error message about missing hard drive or similar, but nothing. If I insert the CD and tell the boot manager there to boot from the first hard disk, the same symptoms appear.

I have seen something similar on some of the Supermicro microcloud blade. To fix that,

Go to BIOS PCI settings and change the compliance settings to detect non-compliant device.
There is also another setting in BIOS to change the boot order so that Intel Netbios boot loads before the PCI device.
Press enter when it's stuck in black screen

I am quite sure the problem is the legacy LSI SAS 9240-4i card, if you have the budget to change to a different model such as 9260, that would solved your issue.

Hope it helps.

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Try to enable Virtualization Technology (VT-x) in BIOS CPU property: Advanced - CPU Configuration - Virtualization Technology. Then save BIOS settings and power off server.

If it's not help you update BIOS.

In addition.

Change iommu parameter in /boot/grub/grub.conf. For help:

**VT-d boot parameter: iommu**
VT-d is disabled by default, to enable it, need 'iommu' parameter to enable it.
off|no|false|disable: Disable IOMMU (default)
pv: Enable IOMMU for PV
domainsno-pv: Disable IOMMU for PV domains (default)
force|required: Don't boot unless IOMMU is enabled
workaround_bios_bug: Workaround some bios issues to still enable VT-d, don't guarantee security
pass-through: Enable VT-d DMA pass-through (no DMA translation for Dom0)
no-snoop: Disable VT-d Snoop Control
no-qinval: Disable VT-d Queued Invalidation
no-intremap: Disable VT-d Interrupt Remapping
verbose: In Xen 4.0.0 and newer, enable verbose logging while enabling IOMMU and parsing ACPI DMAR tables.

Usually, you just need iommu=1 to enable VT-d.

Or edit grub parameter at boot time:

Press "Esc" at Grub menu.
Choose grub meenu item and then press 'e' to start editing.
Scroll down to the "kernel..." line.
Press 'e' again to edit this line and then insert or edit kernel parameters.
Go to the end of the line, press Enter to accept the editing.
Then press 'b' to boot using that kernel and those parameters.

At next boot all changes will be lost.

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