This issue is probably due to the T430 not supporting NVMe SSDs. Since they're not tested in the T430 they aren't supported, that doesn't mean that they won't work, just that we don't test them, so we can't be certain how they will respond with the server.
Similar situation: Added NVMe on a PCIe adapter. Both Ubuntu and Rocky Linux install onto the drive, but then the system will not boot. iDRAC sees the device, but the BIOS won't recognize it as a drive. I'll try a SATA SSD connected to the onboard controller next. Hopefully I'll be able to use the NVMe drive for swap and user space after the system is booted.
Yup, the SATA SSD (Crucial MX500) works just fine as a boot disk. Instead of a super-blazing-fast system disk, I'll have an pretty-good system disk and a super-blazing-fast user disk. (With, eventually, two sets of 4-disk RAID 5 arrays consisting of 16TB SATA disks. )
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This issue is probably due to the T430 not supporting NVMe SSDs. Since they're not tested in the T430 they aren't supported, that doesn't mean that they won't work, just that we don't test them, so we can't be certain how they will respond with the server.
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July 11th, 2022 14:00
Similar situation: Added NVMe on a PCIe adapter. Both Ubuntu and Rocky Linux install onto the drive, but then the system will not boot. iDRAC sees the device, but the BIOS won't recognize it as a drive. I'll try a SATA SSD connected to the onboard controller next. Hopefully I'll be able to use the NVMe drive for swap and user space after the system is booted.
Thornarg
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July 11th, 2022 22:00
Yup, the SATA SSD (Crucial MX500) works just fine as a boot disk. Instead of a super-blazing-fast system disk, I'll have an pretty-good system disk and a super-blazing-fast user disk. (With, eventually, two sets of 4-disk RAID 5 arrays consisting of 16TB SATA disks. )