I have a server-grade SSD (Intel DC P3520) that will eventually end up in a server. Until the server is deployed in the data center I want to conduct some tests in a desktop machine.
I have an older but yet usable machine (AMD Phenom/ASUS M4A88T-M with 16GB) and was easily able to install Ubuntu 17 BUT obiously the board cannot boot from the PCIe SSD. As the Ubuntu Installer could see and write to the SSD it is save to expect that Linux can handle the device.
Is there an (easy) way to somehow chain-boot from a "Helper" USB stick to the Ubuntu installation on the PCIe SSD? That is, boot from USB into a trampoline system (GRUB/Linux/Bootmanager) that has drivers for the PCIe SSD and loads the kernel just as GRUB would.
I am explicitly not asking for:
- How to make an outdated BIOS boot directly from PCIe devices
- How to use the PCIe SSD as a data drive
- Advice to buy new hardware
The goal is to evaluate the performance gain of this server-grade SSD compared to SATA or M.2 SSDs for specific desktop applications.
Thanks for reading!
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