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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: MatteusBlanc on April 07, 2018, 09:19:18 pm

Title: GA-Z87N-WIFI nvme boot from nvme drive
Post by: MatteusBlanc on April 07, 2018, 09:19:18 pm

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

Title: Re: GA-Z87N-WIFI nvme boot from nvme drive
Post by: shadowsports on April 08, 2018, 04:04:08 pm

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.