canezila wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:55 pm
Hi Glen and Musicians,
I am working on a new laptop with two nvme drives. Win10 on 1st and Ubuntu 20.04 zfs on 2nd slot. Then I got an update about the new AVL64 and knew the Ubuntu was coming off.
1. Systemback didnt acknowledge my 2nd nvme. So I formatted the drive to ext4/swap. Rebooted.
2. This time thunar sees the drive. Systemback still doesn't provide an option.
3. I have already turned off secure boot and I am running in Legacy mode.
Maybe I should switch the drive slots? I am going to try that.
Brian Clem
Hi Brian,
I have installed the AVLinux 2020-04-10 on my NVMe M.2 SSD. I must state that i have only one NVMe drive in my system.
AVLinux uses systemback which is a little different than simple installation.
Answers to these few questions may help :-
1) Win10 requires GPT+EFI. It should not boot in legacy mode. How is your booting managed. ?
2) Is the SATA setting in your BIOS is set to AHCI ? (CAUTION :- NO OS WILL BE DETECTED IF you change the current value no matter what it is, save the changes and reboot)
BELOW IS PRESENTED AS ADVICE, KINDLY READ CAREFULLY and THEN DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO DO IT.
Since you are removing Ubuntu from your system,
to properly do it for AVLinux installation :-
1) First, Change the boot order by placing the windows boot entry at the top and delete boot entry for ubuntu using efibootmgr.
You can do it the above step in windows also. If you wanna do it in windows, find a guide, there are lots.
2) Now you format the drive it is installed on from AVLinux booted live, so that new grub finds it easy to manage the boot using following steps :-
a) Clear first 2MiB of the 2nd NVMe(All data will be lost on that NVMe drive). It will erase the partition table and any boot codes and hence all the data. Sometimes boot code remains even after a format. This step is done to remove it.
Before that, note down the /dev/nvme entry for drive you want to install on. You can do it by -
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme-drive-to-use-for-avlinux-installation status=progress count=4096 bs=512
Now, You will have to create a new partition table as the drive is now unrecognizable for any installer. Open gparted in AVLinux live, Use GPT because i highly recommend it and AVLinux fully supports it. Create partitions for AVLinux as per your requirements using gparted. Reboot. Disable legacy mode if you have not already and boot in live, open systemback and proceed with the installation using the windows created efi partition for /boot/efi, other drive partitions for their mount points.
Disabling Legacy Mode will ensure that AVLinux is booted in efi mode and windows 10 installation is detected to make an entry in the boot menu during AVLinux installation process.
3)
ADVICE - Kindly get all the partitions ready before installation and then proceed with it by first booting AVLinux live for "isotester" user and then open systemback from there for installation.
DO NOT check the "format" option in systemback when selecting the mount point. Proceed normally after that.
I must warn you once again to
FIRST READ IT VERY CAREFULLY as so much is written here. If you decide to proceed with it, any data loss(i doubt there will be any but still) will be your responsibility. It is not to scare you but to make you aware that one wrong step you didn't realize before its done and you may loose all your precious data my friend
Let us know if you succeed in it. It will help others also.
