Hi @Regan! Thanks for the update! That does sound like it would work, but sadly I’m not actually attempting to run Rockstor off the USB drive. I’m aiming to only use it as my install media to install the OS on to the NVMe drive in the tower.
I might be able to do similarly on my main desktop to make the NVMe drive bootable (I think I have an open NVMe there, and could just let vmware have control of it to set it up) and move it back when I’m done. At that point, it’s arguable that the effort to make it work would be the same as just doing the btrfs management myself in another linux distro, and this way I have no guarantee it’s possible with the NVMe drive.
I continued poking around on the forums a bit and found another thread here. Based on the related github issue, it doesn’t seem the issue had been resolved by updating the installer to a more recent version at any point (the issue has been open since 2016). I assume this is likely related.
If there’s anyone lurking who has been keeping up with the development on the project: is this something that’s been ignored due to the move to OpenSUSE? From what I understand, that version isn’t quite ready for general use yet.