Hi guys, I am not very familiar with how NVMe is handled for booting, but I just ordered a X10SRi-F for a homelab upgrade and figured if I can get a PCIe card to slot a NVMe SSD into, I’d prefer this for my proxmox host and it’s VM’s over a SATA ssd.
That said, I don’t fully understand how to determine if it can actually boot from this device. I do build desktops, have for 15+ years, but I’ll be honest I have been slightly confused by NVMe and it’s comparability since it’s release many years ago. The X10SRi-F has UEFI, but I am not certain if it has whatever is required to boot from a PCIe NVMe device, and looking at the manual and poking around forum threads has not really helped my understand. I did come across some posts about “making any mobo including legacy bios boards boot from NVMe with clover bootloader” etc, but as a server I more want to just “be stable and work”, I am not sure this route is right for me, nor is editing the BIOS imo which is another option I found.
Does anyone know if this board will natively boot from NVMe on a PCIe add on riser card?
That said, I don’t fully understand how to determine if it can actually boot from this device. I do build desktops, have for 15+ years, but I’ll be honest I have been slightly confused by NVMe and it’s comparability since it’s release many years ago. The X10SRi-F has UEFI, but I am not certain if it has whatever is required to boot from a PCIe NVMe device, and looking at the manual and poking around forum threads has not really helped my understand. I did come across some posts about “making any mobo including legacy bios boards boot from NVMe with clover bootloader” etc, but as a server I more want to just “be stable and work”, I am not sure this route is right for me, nor is editing the BIOS imo which is another option I found.
Does anyone know if this board will natively boot from NVMe on a PCIe add on riser card?