Does anybody did this on a ga-970-ds3p fx rev. 2.1?
Trying for two days and nothing...

@ijokerboy

If the board is UEFI compatible use the REFIND option ( mass-storage without DUET ) to load the NVME driver.


Booting the NVME drive from UEFI capable board - REFIND mass-storage without DUET - with USBSetup:

# LOAD EFI RAID SATA DRIVER IF FOUND ON FS0 (DUET)
for %x run (0 0)
if exist fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi then
		    echo "LOADING fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi"
		    load fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi
			echo "RELOADING FILESYSTEMS"
			map -r > NUL
			else
#			echo "FS%x: RAID DRIVER NOT FOUND"
		endif
endfor
 
 

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# LOAD EFI NVME DRIVER IF FOUND ON FS0 (USB)
for %x run (0 0)
if exist fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi then
		    echo "LOADING fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi"
		    load fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi
			echo "RELOADING FILESYSTEMS"
			map -r > NUL
			else
#			echo "FS%x: NVME DRIVER NOT FOUND"
		endif
endfor
 
 

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #812

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@ijokerboy

If the board is UEFI compatible use the REFIND option ( mass-storage without DUET ) to load the NVME driver.


Booting the NVME drive from UEFI capable board - REFIND mass-storage without DUET - with USBSetup:

• 1) Connect a USB flash drive and start the USBSetup application

• 2) Select the USB flash drive letter from the drop-down combo box

    Warning.
    The following step will completely remove all information and partitions on the selected USB flash drive

• 3) Remove all information and partitions from the drive by clicking on: CLEAN

• 4) format the selected drive by clicking on: FORMAT

• 5) Copy the graphical boot manager REFIND by clicking on: REFIND

• 6) Connect the USB on the target system and set Boot from USB as the first option in your system BIOS Boot order

Eventually if REFIND is not required you can set it on -1 with it's timout option or also check how the NSH work and adapt it to load just the EFI driver directly from an available shell.

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# LOAD EFI RAID SATA DRIVER IF FOUND ON FS0 (DUET)
for %x run (0 0)
if exist fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi then
		    echo "LOADING fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi"
		    load fs%x:\EFI\Raid\RaidDriver.efi
			echo "RELOADING FILESYSTEMS"
			map -r > NUL
			else
#			echo "FS%x: RAID DRIVER NOT FOUND"
		endif
endfor
 
 

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# LOAD EFI NVME DRIVER IF FOUND ON FS0 (USB)
for %x run (0 0)
if exist fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi then
		    echo "LOADING fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi"
		    load fs%x:\EFI\Boot\drivers\NvmExpressDxe.efi
			echo "RELOADING FILESYSTEMS"
			map -r > NUL
			else
#			echo "FS%x: NVME DRIVER NOT FOUND"
		endif
endfor
 
 

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@ijokerboy


The OS must be booted from|with the REFIND mass-storage (without DUET) USB attached.
You need to make within the BIOS the USB BOOT (REFIND mass-storage without DUET) option the default boot option.

@noInk

I did that. When it boots to the USB stick no drive appears...

@ijokerboy

X64 OS GPT partitioned drive is required.
If you are using the REFIND mass-storage without DUET option double check the presence of an NvmExpressDxe.efi within the [USB]:\EFI\Boot\drivers\
There should just be NvmExpressDxe with the directory.
If the installation ended correctly RESET the BIOS to default or clear the NVRAM if an option is available.
Once in REFIND try to HIT the ESC or F2 keyboard button.
If the keyboard doesn't work place the Ps2KeyboardDxe.efi too within the [USB]:\EFI\Boot\drivers\



If nothing:
Disable secure boot - remove actual key.
Re-do the installation making sure only the NVME is attached during the installation process (detach other SATA port\drive but leave the USB with REFIND mass-storage without DUET attached )
Certain board require to remove the OS installer USB before the first reboot.

select the shell option in REFIND and let it run the startup.nsh
or
check manually the location and presence of the OS boot file usually located in FS1:\EFI\Boot\


take a screen of the INFO page (F10) and from the shell type;

FS0:
dmem > dmem.txt
memmap > memmap.txt
smbiosview > smbiosview.txt
map > map.txt
reset
 
 

and post a zip with the screen (screenshot folder) and the text result found on the USB root directory.

Ok, so before i read your answer i went i gave a few more attempts. Turns out that on legacy he can see the nvme driver everytime. I can even try to boot from it. But now the problem is when i try to boot windows from thenvme i get errors like "the operating system couldn't be loaded system driver is missing..."

@ijokerboy

If the board is set to UEFI mode use the REFIND option ( mass-storage without DUET ) to load the NVME driver.


Booting the NVME drive from UEFI capable board - REFIND mass-storage without DUET - with USBSetup:

DISKPART
 
LIST DISK
 
SELECT DISK <DISKNUMBER> (should be 0 without <> if no other DISK are connected )
 
CLEAN
 
EXIT
 
EXIT
 

 

 

@noInk

At the moment i had some time an made some improvements

I updated the USB 3.0 firmware like you showed how to.

Then i made a modded bios. (thanks to Fernado for providing the roms)
with MMtool V3.22

I used for the start a modded bios with the microcode patch:
CPU Microcode Updated to latest [106A4 Revision 13 (2015-06-30), 106A5 Revision 1D (2018-05-11), 206C2 Revision 1F (2018-05-08), 206C0 Revision 1C (2009-12-14)].

then i change this roms to

Intel RST RAID ROM v17.8.3.4687 (SSD TRIM support in AHCI and RAID modes)
Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller - Bios : v1.0.0.1038
Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller - Firmware: v2.1.0.1413
Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller - Bootloader: v1.0.1.0002b
JMicron JMB36X Controller: v1.08.01 (AHCI Patched)
INTEL 82567V-2 Gigabit Network: v1.5.85

that (especially the Marvell controller ) improved the booting and load time a little.

and i found out if i remove the onboard wifi card Qualcom Atheros Card AR9002WB-1NG (its a mini PCIE expresscard) the load time is improved now to around 11 sec.

so now i am done with imporvements on that hardware.

And i replace the wifi card through a Intel AX200 (ax 2.4 Gbit) and thats it.

Thanks again for providing a great tool like DUET with REWIND.

@mujuli

Thanks for the report!

Be sure you can enter the IRST utility from your BIOS with the assigned combination ( CTRL-I ) an also check if it provide all the required function along the rebuild feature on disk error before calling it done.

@noInk I'm sorry i'm a little lost. And sorry if i can't expose my problem very cleary.. English is not my first language...
Ok, so i only had time today to do the tests... My board has a few more options that i'm not familiar with about choosing legacy or uefi mode. It has:
-boot mode selection
- storage boot option control and
- Other PCI device rom priority.
I'm not sure how im supposed to leave the options on each of them except, of course, boot mode selection....

I tried putting all of them in UEFI and boot the usb stick with the REFIND procedure as you mentioned how to build. My screen goes to the motherboard logo(like it does when i boot windows from a sata drive then it goes to windows loading screen) but it freezes there...

@ijokerboy

You need to follow the written procedure and boot the mass-storage USB with REFIND before loading the OS from it.

@noInk But thats what i did, boot the drive, thats what happened...

sorry i didn't know how to delete the post and instead of edit i ended up making another post... anyway:

@noInk But thats what i did, i boot the usb stick, thats what happened...

@ijokerboy
You should see something along the line of:
Motherboard logo > REFIND bootmanager > OS logo