After many tries here's how I installed: 1. I gave up on the Intel RST type fake raid, I configured the controller to be in AHCI mode in BIOS, which exposes both the drives. 2. Both drives got partitioned the same: 512 MB UEFI boot (FAT32) and the rest is btrfs. I add the esp flag to the UEFI boot partitions with gparted. Since SSDs, there's no swap partition. (Also about SSDs: these days relatime mount options is by default, so I don't have to add noatime). 3. I then configured striping mode of btrfs across the two btrfs partitions. 4. Installed 16.04 Ubuntu MATE, the installer thinks it's installing only on one of the btrfs partitions (maybe I have to rebalance later?) 5. The installer still fails to install GRUB and the UEFI stuff. I had to install boot-repair (starting by adding a ppa to apt-get), and went through the instructions (like I did so many times the last several weekends). This time it worked. UEFI is in UEFI+CSM mode in BIOS. I believe I'm in non Secure boot mode now, I'll try secure later, although that'd matter when I did the boot-repair. We'll see. But at least it's booting now.
I just don't know what to say after all of this plus the Win 10 upgrade experience. Waste of so much time, everything should just work instead. (I'm aware that the root cause of issue with the Linux is the neglect of the platform from hardware vendors of emerging technologies, combined with the limited nature of the community resources. At least I learned a lot on the way about different type of NVMes, UEFI, ...). On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > Did anyone try to install 16.04 Ubuntu flavor to any machine with Intel > RST fake RAID0 NVMe SSDs? > https://askubuntu.com/questions/799225/ubuntu-mate-16-04-install-fails-on-an-mdadm-nvme-raid0-configuration-boot-repai > > I desperately need some advice. > > (Earlier parts of the ordeal: getting mdadm up and running when wireless > is faulty: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/794218/getting-killer-wireless-ac-1535-working-for-installing-ubuntu-16-04 > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/794763/how-to-determine-device-name-for-nmve-ssds-during-install > > Thanks, > Csaba > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
