SliTaz (and GRUB2) with SSD disks

SliTaz (and GRUB2) with SSD disks

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-and-grub2-with-ssd-disks#post-46841

And finally only NVMe support was usefull; setting

# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PCIESSD_MTIP32XX is not set and

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y

SliTaz can now see the disk :)

# fdisk -l
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 500118192 sectors, 2534M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): 324ef864-7efa-45be-b0b0-c70122bdf99c
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 500118158

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector) Size Name
    1        2048 534527  260M EFI system partition
    2      534528     796671 128M Microsoft reserved partition
    3      796672  500117503 238G Basic data partition

full support fat32

# tazpkg -gi dosfstools mtools

GParted --> View --> File System Support

 

Microsoft reserved partition (MSR) - msftres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reserved_Partition

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PCIESSD_MTIP32XX:

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/BLK_DEV_PCIESSD_MTIP32XX.html

$ grep mtip32xx /lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/modules.builtin

kernel/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.ko

Dell Latitude E5470 SATA SSD

Micron SSD 1100 (MTFDDAV256TBN), 256 GB, M.2 2280, 190 GB free

 

Lenovo E480 PCIe NVMe x2 SSD

Lenovo LENSE20256GMSP34MEAT2TA, 256 GB, M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe x2, 210 GB free