Release images does not boot from NVMe
To allow booting a diskless/data/setup-bootable setup from a NVMe drive, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y
needs to be set in the kernel config, as modules have to be loaded from the NVMe drive itself.
See for example the equivalent change in raspberrypi/linux: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4163