Installing avlinux 2020.05.10

[kultex]

I bought a used Portege Dynabook X30 to send my old Macbook Air 2011 to pension (its now used on stage in a play) and I wanted to install it to the internal harddisk - but it does not work - maybe it is the problem, that it is a NVMe-disk.

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root@avl64busterbox:/home/isotester# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZVLW256HEHP-00000              
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 29304AB9-95CC-11E7-BA94-000EC6C3BD42

Device             Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048   1085439   1083392  529M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p2   1085440   1290239    204800  100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p3   1290240   1323007     32768   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p4   1323008 125024255 123701248   59G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p5 125024256 289314815 164290560 78.3G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p6 289314816 302385151  13070336  6.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p7 302385152 496162815 193777664 92.4G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p8 496162816 500117503   3954688  1.9G Linux swap

Systemback just tells, that /dev/nvme0n1p2 is busy or not availabe and aborts, when I try to start installation.

I could install AVL to my Samsung T5 using Rufus with the mkusb tool to get persistance - https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/08/r ... -live.html . It boots and most changes work without any problem. The only thing, that does not work, is, that it crashes, when I wake it up from suspend2ram. Suspend2ram works when I boot a normal stick from USB-A - but the the T5 is connected through USB-C, because I just have 1 USB-A on the X30.

And I would like to send the X30 to sleep, when I make a break...

Does systemback do a normal install to the T5? and will sleep work, because it is still connected through USB-C?- does anybody have an idea to install it to the NVMe-disk?

[GMaq]

Hi,

I also answered on the Ardour forum, sorry it took a few days to see and respond..

Yes NVMe support is unfortunately not very complete or fully reliable in Systemback yet, I have varying reports of it working as expected and other reports that it doesn't work. I unfortunately don't have any NVMe drives on my systems to test with (I only have SSDs)

There is a bit of info in this thread here, not sure if there is anything valuable to assist you: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21286

[willmorrison]

I bought a used Portege Dynabook X30 to send my old Macbook Air 2011 to pension (its now used on stage in a play) and I wanted to install it to the internal harddisk - but it does not work - maybe it is the problem, that it is a NVMe-disk.

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I don't know if this is applicable or not, but I have not been able to get AVLinux to install on either of my two laptops. Neither of mine are I-devices, but at least one of them should have enough resources to run it. However, when I try to install on either one, it fails and boots from the hard drive I'm trying to install on. I can and have put Ubuntu Studio on both, and that went without a hitch.

I don't have any of the newer drives, just the SATA SSD and standard hard drives, so I can't say anything about the NVMe stuff. I'd LIKE to play with that but I'm too cheap to spring for a new motherboard, proc and ram. But it's my opinion that AV doesn't like laptops.

[GMaq]

Hi,

I'm sorry you're having problems but I can assure you that the fact they are laptops is not the problem, I have 2 aging laptops with SSD's that I test installs on. I'm not clear on what you mean by "it fails and boots from the hard drive I'm trying to install on"..

Does the LiveUSB boot and run OK on your laptops? Have you read the installation instructions in the User Manual? I expect some issues with NVMe but the machines you describe should be good candidates for an AV Linux install..