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I installed a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 with a 3.0 X16 adapter (in a PCIE 3.0 x16 slot) and now discover that my mother board does not support booting from there. The MB is an ASRock Z77 Extreme4, although that's probably not so important now. I've been running FreeBSD from SATA on it for a couple of years without a problem.
I read that there are some bios fixes out there, but I don't really trust them - partly because it's Windows users talking about it. However, since FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE seems to install perfectly on it (I fixed my installation problem which I reported in another thread.)
However, perhaps a quick fix is to boot from another drive and still put my OS on the SSD. I really don't care about boot time since that's not something I do more than a couple time a year anyway. Perhaps a USB boot would be good here, but I'm not sure how to do that and haven't found a good link yet. I would appreciate any links and suggestions.
I read that there are some bios fixes out there, but I don't really trust them - partly because it's Windows users talking about it. However, since FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE seems to install perfectly on it (I fixed my installation problem which I reported in another thread.)
However, perhaps a quick fix is to boot from another drive and still put my OS on the SSD. I really don't care about boot time since that's not something I do more than a couple time a year anyway. Perhaps a USB boot would be good here, but I'm not sure how to do that and haven't found a good link yet. I would appreciate any links and suggestions.