Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme
None of the suggestions worked but I found the solution for me.
When the installer asks how to partition, choose Manual
, after that:
- Select
/dev/nvme0n1
, it will ask if it should create a new partition table(only the first time) - accept that. - Select
free space
and choose to create anEFI boot section
(in different tools this could be called differently but all should sayEFI
), set it to500 MB
(this should be first, before the other partitions insidenvme0n1
) - Now partition the rest of the
free space
, for example setting all of thefree space
to be root/
,ext4
(it is recommended to at least set/boot
separately). - At the bottom you should see a menu that asks where
grub
should be installed. Choose/dev/nvme0n1
.
Done, it is a very simple setup in reality and you don't need to disable UEFI.
You need to tell the installer to install Grub to /dev/nvme0n1
(at least that's how it shows up on my NUC 5i5RYK with an NVMe drive. However, at least in my case, it appears the installer is broken as I still was not be able to boot into the newly installed system.
However, I did find two methods that fix broken Ubuntu 15.10 boot failure after initial install:
Use the GUI program Boot Repair:
The default or "Recommended Repair" doesn't work, but I selected the "Advanced Options" and uncheck "SecureBoot" but keep all other default options then follow the instructions, the system correctly boots to the newly installed OS.
Results available at http://paste.ubuntu.com/14439023/
Install Ubuntu 15.04 first, then upgrade to 15.10. As an alternative to running Boot Repair, I found that if I install 15.04, run all updates:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
then run
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
then 15.10 will successfully boot.
I continually got this error when using the installer's default Erase disk and install Ubuntu (with LVM encryption) option, so instead I selected Something else to customise my partitions with gparted.
I set a sensible enough partition scheme (60GB primary ext4 /
, 100GB logical ext4 /home
, 10GB swap
) and selected the primary
partition as the Device for boot loader installation, then it installed without the error.