Booting linux with nvme drives in UEFI mode

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Boot kubuntu in UEFI mode from the BIOS. You achieve this by pressing F2 when the DELL logo shows up and in Boot Option, select UEFI. Secure mode must be disabled.
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Boot kubuntu in UEFI mode from the BIOS. You achieve this by pressing F2 when the DELL logo shows up and in Boot Option, select UEFI. Secure mode will surely have to be disabled. The default installer fails. My solution is to run [https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ boot-repair] after the installer crashes (you need internet connection)
 
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My solution is to run [https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ boot-repair] after the installer crashed.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
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sudo apt-get [[Media:Example.ogg]]install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
 
sudo apt-get [[Media:Example.ogg]]install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
  
Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again. Generating the report and looking at the error, it shows where the software is looking for sources.list. It is then just a matter of locating it (locate) and symlink, then run again. Following the steps boot-repairs advises you to take successfully installs the boot-loader.
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Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of
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Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again.
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Generating the report (pasted in http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Zt2b7KMXdS/ in my case) and looking at the error, it shows where the software is looking for sources.list. It is then just a matter of locating it (locate) and symlink, then run again. In my case, that required:
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sudo ln -s /etc/apt/sources.list /target/etc/apt
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Following the steps boot-repairs advises you to take successfully installs the boot-loader.

Revision as of 18:07, 3 January 2019

Boot kubuntu in UEFI mode from the BIOS. You achieve this by pressing F2 when the DELL logo shows up and in Boot Option, select UEFI. Secure mode will surely have to be disabled. The default installer fails. My solution is to run boot-repair after the installer crashes (you need internet connection)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get Media:Example.ogginstall -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of

Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again.

Generating the report (pasted in http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Zt2b7KMXdS/ in my case) and looking at the error, it shows where the software is looking for sources.list. It is then just a matter of locating it (locate) and symlink, then run again. In my case, that required:

sudo ln -s /etc/apt/sources.list /target/etc/apt

Following the steps boot-repairs advises you to take successfully installs the boot-loader.