Adding the NVME causes boot loop?

[swulff]

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 ?

I would try re-formatting it in the laptop, where it works.  Using the stock Debian, FAT32 USB drives work.  As far as I know, both EXT4 and FAT32 should work for storage.

Also, I took a look at the webpage for that drive.  It's possible that it's drawing too much power to work properly in the PBP.

Thanks, I will try to format. The power thing may be a factor although it seemed to work fine until I formatted it.. Any idea what a symptom of drawing too much power could be? I don't know much about that side of things but looping in boot seems odd.