Slowroll install stuck at loading basic drivers (insmod error: 1 | possibly nvme problem)

[Bird]

Hello everyone,

a week ago my Fedora laptop disintegrated during a normal update, so I finally had the excuse to install Slowroll onto it. However, I am kinda stuck and don’t know what to do.

As per the title, the installation process stops at the “loading basic drivers” stage and the tty gives me some clues, but I need someone smarter than me to translate them

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

I am following the above guide and downloaded the latest iso from the first link. But, because laptops don’t have a DVD drive anymore, I installed the iso to a capable USB key with the SUSE Studio Imagewriter.

Also, I have to mention that I am dual booting Windows and maybe that is the real issue here. I am more than okay to erase the whole drive and Windows with it, if that scourge stops me from installing Slowroll.

Anyway, the problem seems to be related to the nvme drive. Here are some pictures from the tty:

As you can see, the system seems to get stuck in a controller reset loop.

Please help

[hui]

@Bird

a week ago my Fedora laptop disintegrated during a normal update,

And now the installation of Slowroll fails due to a pcieport error…hardware failure?

[Bird]

Windows seems to be booting just fine and is on the same drive, only on a different partition of course…

Also, I logged into a live linux mint environment and successfully made a backup of my home directory. So I could read the file system without a problem.

[malcolmlewis]

@Bird Hi, at the install GRUB, edit the entry and at the linuxefi line append nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 and see if that helps.

[Bird]

Thank you!
Your sorcery worked wonders

Also, I gotta say the installer is amazing once it starts. On my first install with my desktop PC, I was a bit clueless and I think the installer was a bit buggy as well, but now it felt really intuitive and easy.

I installed Slowroll successfully to another small nvme drive with about 27GB of space, which I had no idea even existed inside the laptop. And I made home to be in the partition where Fedora once resided. Maybe that way Windows won’t interfere too much with Linux, if that was the problem of it all. I am not too worried about the home partition or Windows, if I am still atleast able to boot properly.

Maybe the big nvme drive really is dying. But that I will have to figure out on my own.

Again, thanks so much for the quick help @hui and @malcolmlewis.
I wish you a wonderful end of the week!

[malcolmlewis]

@Bird You will need to use that, it’s related to the NVMe controller (Western Digital?) AFAIK, you may be able to change the value, once the install is complete, it may not be needed…

[Bird]

bird@localhost:~> lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,MODEL
NAME        FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT                          SIZE MODEL
nvme0n1                                              476,9G INTEL HBRPEKNX0202A
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat                                       260M 
├─nvme0n1p2                                             16M 
├─nvme0n1p3 ntfs   /run/media/bird/OS                225,7G 
├─nvme0n1p4 ntfs                                      1000M 
├─nvme0n1p5 ext4   /run/media/bird/a695e2d0-c329-483     1G 
├─nvme0n1p6 xfs    /home                             241,5G 
└─nvme0n1p7 swap   [SWAP]                              7,5G 
nvme1n1                                               27,3G INTEL HBRPEKNX0202AO
├─nvme1n1p1                                              1M 
├─nvme1n1p2                                             15M 
├─nvme1n1p3 vfat   /boot/efi                           512M 
└─nvme1n1p4 btrfs  /var                               26,7G 
bird@localhost:~> 

It seems to be working just fine