Hello,

I installed Alpine Linux on a laptop with NVMe storage today using the
new cryptsetup installer. Upon rebooting, the root filesystem failed to
mount. I eventually realized that the nvme feature needed to be enabled
in mknitfs.conf and the initramfs needed to be rebuilt in order to boot
from NVMe storage.

In order to improve the experience for new Alpine Linux users, I think
that the nvme feature should be automatically detected and added to
mkinitfs.conf. Thoughts?

> On 26 Dec 2021, at 17:52, Adnan Maolood <me@adnano.co> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I installed Alpine Linux on a laptop with NVMe storage today using the
> new cryptsetup installer. Upon rebooting, the root filesystem failed to
> mount. I eventually realized that the nvme feature needed to be enabled
> in mknitfs.conf and the initramfs needed to be rebuilt in order to boot
> from NVMe storage.
> 
> In order to improve the experience for new Alpine Linux users, I think
> that the nvme feature should be automatically detected and added to
> mkinitfs.conf. Thoughts?
> 

Hi,

I’ve added it through a few months ago [0], maybe the mkinitfs present is still the old version. Could be nice that someone could create a new release otherwise.

Can you tell which version of mkinitfs is present on your alpine version?

[0]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/mkinitfs/-/merge_requests/73

— 
David

Hi, sorry for the late reply (I was not CC'ed).

> Can you tell which version of mkinitfs is present on your alpine version?

It's been a while and I can't check the mkinitfs version. However, I'm
glad that this has been addressed.