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MSI Server Extra Drive Notes

Before messing with GRUB, I plan to try booting into BIOS, then from BIOS choosing the nvme0n1 drive to boot from instead of the default nvme1n1.

I could also try mounting the drive now from Linux to see what contents it has.

Try Mounting

gqc@msi-server:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0 /media/gqc/win/ -o umask=0022,gid=1000,uid=1000
[sudo] password for gqc:
mount: /media/gqc/win: /dev/nvme0 is not a block device.
gqc@msi-server:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1 /media/gqc/win/ -o umask=0022,gid=1000,uid=1000
mount: /media/gqc/win: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme0n1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
gqc@msi-server:~$

Listed Drives

Drives listed in /sys/block/

gqc@msi-server:~$ ls -l /sys/block/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 16:44 nvme0n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:02:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 16:44 nvme1n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:05:00.0/nvme/nvme1/nvme1n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 16:44 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/block/sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 13 16:44 sdb -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-7/2-7:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 9 08:17 sdc -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5.4/1-5.4:1.0/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdc

Drives listed via lsblk

gqc@msi-server:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 9.1T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 9.1T 0 part /media/gqc/unionsine2
sdb 8:16 0 4.5T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 4.5T 0 part /media/gqc/WD_BLACK
sdc 8:32 0 9.1T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 9.1T 0 part /media/gqc/unionsine1
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p2 259:1 0 128M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:2 0 800M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p5 259:3 0 22.8G 0 part
nvme1n1 259:4 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:5 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme1n1p2 259:6 0 1.8T 0 part /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell
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