Re: Installing Debian on NVMe Dirive with killer E2400 ethernet next to Impossible!!!!

Ok I finally got it to work, here is the procedure, I hope it helps someone:

Step 1 start the installation with the Debian DVD and go through it unitl
it sais Grub failed

Step 2 in a separate USB memory and with a working debian system do:

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub-efi-amd64
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub2-common
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub-efi-amd64-bin
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download efibootmngr
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download libefvar0

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download linux-base
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download Initramfs-tools
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download linux-image-4XXXXXXX (i dont
remember
just pick your 4.x image)

Step3 on the system that you are installing go into a terminal

cd /target
mount --rbind /sys sys/
mount --rbind /dev dev/
mount --rbind /run run/
chroot . /bin/bash

Step 4 insert your usb and do cd /var/ ls and figure out its name usually
/dev/sdb1

Step 5 mount your usb with the packages
mkdir ./cosas
mount /dev/sdb1 ./cosas
cd cosas

Step 6 start installing the linux kernel packages, then the grub starting
in this order
linux-base
initramfs-tools
linux-imagexxxxx
libefvar0
efibootmngr
grub-efi-amd64-bin
grub2common
grubefi-amd64

Step 7
update-grub
grub-install

Step 8
exit the console by typing exit

step 9
finish the installation

step 10
Reboot

step 11 Enjoy.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 23.10.16 12:38, Humberto Hassey wrote:
>
>> Hello I am a Debian user and just bought a nice laptop from system 76, I
>> wiped ubuntu and proceed to install Debian, well it turns our that Debian
>> does not recognize my network card, and the Grub packed on the installer
>> does not recognize the NVMe drive correctly, so I can not boot, nor
>> connect
>> to the internet.
>>
>> I love Debian and would hate to leave because my Hw was not supported, I
>> know that the kernel 4 does support NVMe drives and that there is a grub
>> package in backports that does too, but how in the world can I install
>> them!
>>
>> I tried getting a shell from the install DVD and chrooting into the
>> installation to install the previously downloaded grub-efi-amd64 and
>> linux-image 4.7xxx from backports, but the installation fails saying there
>> are unmet dependencies...
>>
>
> this page mentions patch for ubuntu to make the driwer work:
>
> http://www.killernetworking.com/product-support/knowledge-ba
> se/17-linux/21-killer-e2400-in-linux-ubuntu-debian
>
> It could work for debian too (ubuntu is de facto repackaged debian).
> seems the killer e2400 card is just alx network card, just with different
> PCI ID, so the kernel doesn't know...
>
>
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