Comment 4 for bug 2056730

This bug also prevents an ubuntu-server noble autoinstall installation with NVMe disks attached via PCIe. Noble 20230223.

My configuration was a simple storage: direct, with a disk: match specifying 'smallest' and 'ssd: true' (I have 3 NVMe drives, one 128 GB for OS, two 3.6TB for data.).

Mine is an offline install (true air gap).

Interestingly, the live CD autoinstall process correctly finds and prepares the NVMe drive, installs the system and kernel fine. lsblk even shows all 3 drives. lsmod shows nvme, nvme_core and nvme_common are loaded - no nvme-cli or nvme-stas mentioned. It seems it is subiquity adding those drivers.

Interestingly, the package search site shows noble has these packages:-
https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/nvme-cli

I'm going to try the daily from last night to see if they are now included.