Adding the NVME causes boot loop?

[swulff]

Hi

Just received my NVME adapter today and had and m.2 nvme to stick in.

I took the back cover off, put all the parts in (without folding the cable), put it back together and booted.

My PBP saw the drive, I opened Gparted, created an MSDOS partition table (didn't know which to choose as it was default) and formatted the entire drive as an EXT4, with the intention of having it mount on bootup for extra storage.

after formatting the drive, I tried to mount if with the following result

Code:

swulff@Debian-Desktop:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 mount
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

My DMESG showed the following

Code:

62.956427] FAT-fs (nvme0n1p1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

I thought it strange that it would mention a FAT file system, so I decided to go into GParted and re-format the drive.

Opening up Gparted, caused the machine to reboot and after reboot, opening Gparted caused it to freeze entirely during the scan of the drive.

I shut down by holding power key, but I could not get anywhere with GParted or Terminal.

I read somewhere that the adapter cable should not sit on top of the speaker, so I opened it up and folded the cable like a video showed on youtube and turned on the PBP. Now when I tried to start up the PBP, it would just loop on the "Open Sesame" boot screen. and I can't get it to stop doing that.

I've disconnected the drive now (but left the adapter in place, connected, and the PBP works fine.

I've tried the NVME in a different laptop (but its really really tedious to get it in and out) and Ubuntu had no issue with the drive.

The drive is a Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.