GA-Z87N-WIFI nvme boot from nvme drive

[MatteusBlanc]

Has anyone had success booting the GA-Z87N-WIFI from an nvme drive mounted using a  PCI-e x4 card?

The card I have in mind is:
   ASUS Hyper M.2 X4 PCI-E Mini Adapter Card - Black PCB
and the drive
   Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVME M.2 SSD.

I am using this processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz and so the bios must be either F5 or F6 {machine is headless so it's a real pain to confirm for sure but the spec doesn't mention any difference between these bios versions wrt booting. Source: PCI-e https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z87N-WIFI-rev-20#support-dl}

I am going to be running linux on the machine and so if I can't get it to boot from  PCI-e then I'll just move the rest of /root to the new nvme drive leaving /boot in the current location. That should mean I see the benefits of the drive in all but boot times.

I've read of some success with the 77 chipset where people have updated the bios. But can't find anything on the 87s or a bios update that would fit the bill.

Thanks

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
If memory serves, you can use the card/drive with the system, but cannot boot from it.  I am not 100% sure, (don't recall) but believe this was the case.