<html><head></head><body>Check that the nvme firmware is up to date.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 18, 2022 5:30:34 PM EDT, Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">So, I have a fairly new Dell OptiPlex system with an NVME drive, and UEFI that is my issued "work from home" computer.<br>I am running openSUSE Leap on it.<br>I unplugged it prior to the lightning storm we had this morning, and when I plugged it back up, I got the signs of a dead CMOS battery (everything set to default, time not set, etc...).<br>So, I replaced that battery, set the time, and restarted. I then get the UEFI screen that says the boot device is inaccessible. I double checked that the SATA mode was set to AHCI, and it was - as it was before.<br>I can boot from an openSUSE disk, select the option to boot a copy of Linux from the hard drive, and it will start up my installation just fine.<br>I've tried re-installing the boot loader - no luck.<br>The partition scheme is simple. #1 is the EFI partition, #2 is swap, and #3 is an XFS formatted "/".<br>This is the second time it happened. Last time, I reset the time, forgot about changing the battery, and assumed the issue with booting was not related. Apparently it is. <br>It doesn't make any sense to me how a dead battery/bios reset could cause this, given that I double checked the SATA mode. <br>I'm kind of stumped, and would like to figure out a way to keep this from being a future issue.<br>Any ideas? <br>Oh, and secure boot is disabled, BTW.<br>Allen B.<br><br>--<br>Allen Beddingfield<br>Systems Engineer<br>Office of Information Technology<br>The University of Alabama<br>Office 205-348-2251<br>allen@ua.edu<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>