Re: PCIe SSD

[Jordan Uggla]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jago Pearce <address@hidden> wrote:
> http://www.kingspec.com/solid-state-disk-products/ssd-minipcieide-35mlcs.htm
>
> How do I know whether this drive has the ability to boot? I don't
> think my Vostro 1500 has the ability to boot from this.

That all depends on your computer's firmware, and unfortunately I
don't think that this list will be of much help for determining if
your computer can boot via mini PCIe other than to check your
computer's documentation, try it with a drive if possible before
buying it, and check your BIOS menus to see if there are any options
which hint at support or non-support of boot from PCIe.

>
> What do I search for and where? In general I find it very hard to work
> with grub, finding documentation such as how to change the menu order
> in the new autoprobe ability. I wonder if there are alternative boot
> tools.

Changing the order of automatically generated entries is unfortunately
difficult with the current system, as documented in
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration
. How / why are you trying to change the order? If it's to change
which entry is booted by default that can be done much more easily
using GRUB_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub.

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Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)