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Old 02-27-2025, 08:34 PM   #2502
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
My workstation at work has a PCIe SSD in it. That is, it's a PCIe card, not the M.2 form factor you're probably familiar with.
About 8 years ago my work PC got replaced with with one of those. It had a big honking heat sink. Of course the first thing I did was reparition to my liking and install debian. The install went well and was super fast. But it wouldn't boot. I assumed the HW was too new for debian, so I reinstalled from scratch, but with a 2.5" SATA SSD as /boot and the rest
on the PCIe SSD. That worked great until the next mandatory HW refresh.

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Well, turns out that Microsoft Windows install ISOs still do not have drivers for devices like this. Means that the backup I need to restore cannot be restored: no Windows Recovery Environment can see the damn device. I spent pretty much my entire day struggling with this thing, trying all sorts of tricks and hacks to try to get it to work. No luck so far.

No help from Dell (the vendor) either. They apparently never published a standalone driver for the card. They do have a tool for creating a Windows installer image with the drivers slipstreamed into that image but it doesn't have a way to start a command shell, so I can't restore my backups that way.

The device works. The old OS boots, it just isn't usable in its current state. And I was able to image it with Clonezilla so I have that much as an extra backup. Pity that company policy won't let me run Linux on the bare metal.

Super-duper frustrating. I have one more thing to try next week and then it's time to bite the bullet and reinstall the whole thing from scratch. On a SATA SSD.
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