Struggling to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to newly built PC

[flexbriggs]

Hey guys, first post here. For the past few days, I have been struggling to install Ubuntu (from a flash drive) to my hard drive of type nvme. I've tried many solutions, but to no avail.

[Warning: I'm a HUGE noob when it comes to linux / tech stuff. If you need some information, I'd really appreciate it if you could explain the steps to get the information, Thank you!]

I build a PC with the following components:
MSI b550-a pro motherboard
Ryzen 5 3600 CPU
Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card
Adapta sxg6000 M.2 hard drive

I have two M.2 hard drives, on one I have downloaded Windows 10 successfully. I removed this hard drive and inserted the other so that I could install Ubuntu, but am not having any luck.

What I've done so far:
Change boot order in BIOS to boot to the flash drive, then a (grub?) menu would come up and I'd choose Ubuntu. From there, it would either freeze on the loading (Pro Series) screen,
or if I pressed enter, I could see a long line of errors. Some of which included iomu ivd0 amd-vi timing out, stdin-invalid argument, etc.
Instead of choosing Ubuntu in the (grub?) menu, I edited it and inserted "nomodeset acpi=off" inbetween quiet and splash, and I was able to boot to the flash usb! Progress, but that's
where the progress quickly ended.
Every time I try to install the Ubuntu 20.04, I get the error "Executing 'grub-install /dev/nvme0n1' failed. This is a fatal error'. From here, I've attempted to do some partitioning with GPart,
and I have also tried boot-repair (which always gives me an error).

At this point, I don't know what to do. If you guys have any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. Like I said, if you want any info, please let me know how I can obtain this info.

Thanks

[ubfan1]

First ensure your firmware is up-to-date from the vendor for your motherboard and SSD. The 20.04 kernel is 5.4, so consider trying a later one like 5.7 if all else fails. Next, search the askubuntu site for IOMMU then your msib550, then ryzen 3600. Might be some tips on getting your machine to work. Lastly, the installer will still fail for UEFI mode when the EFI is not on sda. See lanuchpad bug 1396379, the workaround suggested is to do the install from the "Try" desktop of the installer, then remount the desired EFI at /boot/eri.

[flexbriggs]

Hey there, I have read the launchpad bug's comments, and am a bit confused. I'm hoping you can help clear this up? I have a USB Flash Drive and a hard drive I'm trying to install to. Would it be correct to use GParted to partition the hard drive into ext4, EFI, and then mount the EFI of the hard drive to /target/boot/efi,or am I mounting the EFI of the flash drive? I'm just getting a bit confused between the two. Also, if a mount point does not exist, should I just manually create the directories? Thank you

[TheFu]

B550 is bleeding edge.
When searching for that Adapta sxg6000 drive, only your posts show up. None from any vendor. Some NVMe SSDs don't have good drivers.

[ubfan1]

Might be your sda is the install media, in which case not sure if those inst. would work (filesystem might be readonly?). I've always just done the EFI creation manually -- create the three directories (EFI, Boot, ubuntu) and copy in three files (grubx64.efi, shimx64.efi and the stub grub.cfg). Edit the UUID of your Ubuntu root into the three line stub grub.cfg, and if you set the Boot up with grubx64.efi and shimx64.efi renamed as bootx64.efi, the device should boot (even without an explicit OS nvram entry which would boot the ...ubuntu/ efi files.

[oldfred]

Even if different brand, most issue are by common chipset of motherboard.
Essential to have latest UEFI & NVMe firmware updates.

Asus ROG strix b450-F
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1267...146118_1267714
Asus ROG Strix B450 E motherboard UEFI update worked
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1174...960921_1174679
Asus Rog Strix B550 Disable IOMMU
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1265...141726_1265397

If NVMe drive, it will not be /dev/sda, but /dev/nvme0n1.

I only have ESP, / (root) and data partitions. With my smaller SSS, I had data on HDD. Now with a larger NVMe drive, I have most data on NVMe drive and HDD is backup and other "stuff".

[TheFu]

I have an Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING MB. Don't remember any problems specific to Ubuntu/Linux.

The information from that askUbuntu B450 link is out of date. Ryzen MBs over about 6 months old shouldn't have any RAM compatibility issues anymore. I've been running non-approved RAM since the beginning. Just use the XMP profile - AMD calls that something else.

As for NVMe - can't say. My SSD is SATA m.2 in that machine.

[flexbriggs]

My BIOS is the latest version, and I have attempted the install from both the M.2 and a SATA-connected SSD, and both are giving me the same error.

--- Also --- Attempted a boot-repair and received the following error log (long)

boot-repair-4ppa125                                              [20200818_0118]

============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================



/usr/share/boot-sav/bs-cmd_terminal.sh: line 177: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input

Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________

The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sda2,
using the following options:        sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s  use-standard-efi-file


/boot/efi added in sda2/fstab
Mount sda1 on /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi
ls: cannot access '/mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/efi': No such file or directory
No sda2/boot/efi/efi/ ubuntu/mint folder

Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/etc/default/grub

================= Reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of sda2 ==================

grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.04-1ubuntu26.2

efibootmgr -v from chroot before grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI: VendorCoProductCode 2.00, Partition 1    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/USB(7,0)/HD(1,GPT,43d91da7-d9b0-4a91-b077-51d10bc28555,0x800,0xeff7df)..BO

uname -r
5.4.0-42-generic

grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: Internal error.
grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Exit code: 1
df /dev/sda1
mv /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
cp /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /mnt/boot-sav/sda2/boot/efi/EFI/Boot/

grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: warning: Internal error.
grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Exit code: 1

---- Grub-install recheck

/sbin/grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot --recheck
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
/sbin/grub-install: warning: Internal error.
/sbin/grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Exit code: 1
---- End of grub-install recheck


efibootmgr -v from chroot after grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI: VendorCoProductCode 2.00, Partition 1    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/USB(7,0)/HD(1,GPT,43d91da7-d9b0-4a91-b077-51d10bc28555,0x800,0xeff7df)..BO
Error: NVram is locked (Ubuntu not found in efibootmgr).

chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sda2 update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings

Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg

An error occurred during the repair.

Locked-NVram detected.


============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================

 => No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
 => No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       vfat
    Boot sector type:  FAT32
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi 
                       /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi 
                       /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi 
                       /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi 
                       /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ext4
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info: 
    Operating System:  Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
    Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub

sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       vfat
    Boot sector type:  Windows 8/2012: FAT32
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /syslinux.cfg 
                       /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi


================================ 1 OS detected =================================

OS#1:   Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on sda2

============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================

CPU architecture: 64-bit
Live-session OS is Ubuntu 64-bit (Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, focal, x86_64)


===================================== UEFI =====================================

BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot disabled.

efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI: VendorCoProductCode 2.00, Partition 1    PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/USB(7,0)/HD(1,GPT,43d91da7-d9b0-4a91-b077-51d10bc28555,0x800,0xeff7df)..BO



============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================

Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________

sda    : is-GPT,    no-BIOSboot,    has---ESP,     not-usb,    not-mmc, has-os,    2048 sectors * 512 bytes

Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1    : no-os,    32, nopakmgr,    no-docgrub,    nogrub,    nogrubinstall,    no-grubenv,    noupdategrub,    not-far
sda2    : is-os,    64, apt-get,    signed grub-pc grub-efi ,    grub2,    grub-install,    no-grubenv,    update-grub,    farbios

Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1    : is---ESP,    part-has-no-fstab,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot
sda2    : isnotESP,    fstab-has-goodEFI,    no-nt,    no-winload,    no-recov-nor-hid,    no-bmgr,    notwinboot

Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________

sda1    : not-sepboot,    no-boot,    part-has-no-fstab,    not-sep-usr,    no---usr,    part-has-no-fstab,    std-grub.d,    sda
sda2    : not-sepboot,    with-boot,    fstab-without-boot,    not-sep-usr,    with--usr,    fstab-without-usr,    std-grub.d,    sda

fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________

Disk sda: 119.25 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk identifier: C71F4D8F-E050-4A96-83D6-994C194D2B18
       Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
sda1    2048    514047    512000  250M EFI System
sda2  514048 250068991 249554944  119G Linux filesystem
Disk sdb: 7.51 GiB, 8053063680 bytes, 15728640 sectors
Disk identifier: F59CF8D1-634D-47E1-8646-68B1FBCE8B7F
      Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
sdb1   2048 15728606 15726559  7.5G Microsoft basic data

parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________

sda:128GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA M4-CT128M4SSD2:;
1:1049kB:263MB:262MB:fat32::boot, esp;
2:263MB:128GB:128GB:ext4::;
sdb:8053MB:scsi:512:512:gpt:VendorCo ProductCode:;
1:1049kB:8053MB:8052MB:fat32:Main Data Partition:msftdata;

blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________

NAME   FSTYPE   UUID                                 PARTUUID                             LABEL       PARTLABEL
sda                                                                                                   
├─sda1 vfat     8841-7B12                            96e098e1-0067-47ec-b745-91354e6ba60e EFI         
└─sda2 ext4     79e70783-ee8e-46df-9fbe-c417a3e46f9f 9aa442ef-44f5-4eea-b34c-1863f17229dd             
sdb                                                                                                   
└─sdb1 vfat     7692-9FCC                            43d91da7-d9b0-4a91-b077-51d10bc28555 UBUNTU 20_0 Main Data Partition

df (filtered): _________________________________________________________________

       Avail Use% Mounted on
sda1   235.5M   4% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
sda2   103.4G   6% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
sdb1     4.9G  35% /cdrom

Mount options: __________________________________________________________________

sda1   rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
sda2   rw,relatime
sdb1   ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro

===================== sda1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

search.fs_uuid 79e70783-ee8e-46df-9fbe-c417a3e46f9f root hd0,gpt2 
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

====================== sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

Ubuntu   79e70783-ee8e-46df-9fbe-c417a3e46f9f
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-42-generic   79e70783-ee8e-46df-9fbe-c417a3e46f9f
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings   uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###

========================== sda2/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=79e70783-ee8e-46df-9fbe-c417a3e46f9f /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=8841-7B12  /boot/efi       vfat    defaults      0       1

======================= sda2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

==================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================

           GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
   0.245121002 = 0.263196672    boot/grub/grub.cfg                             1
   4.427852631 = 4.754370560    boot/vmlinuz                                   1
   4.427852631 = 4.754370560    boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic                  1
  50.825092316 = 54.573027328   boot/initrd.img                                2
  50.825092316 = 54.573027328   boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic               2
  50.825092316 = 54.573027328   boot/initrd.img.old                            2

===================== sda2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17123 Jul 31 00:34 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42128 Jul 31 00:34 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12894 Jul 31 00:34 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Jul 31 00:34 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1424 Jul 31 00:34 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   214 Jul 31 00:34 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   216 Jul 31 00:34 41_custom

====================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

Ubuntu
Ubuntu (safe graphics)
OEM install (for manufacturers)
Boot from next volume
UEFI Firmware Settings

========================= sdb1/syslinux.cfg (filtered) =========================

DEFAULT loadconfig

LABEL loadconfig
  CONFIG /isolinux/isolinux.cfg
  APPEND /isolinux/

==================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================

           GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
            ?? = ??             boot/grub/grub.cfg                             1

================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Syslinux ==================

           GiB - GB             File                                 Fragment(s)
            ?? = ??             syslinux.cfg                                   1


======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =========================

Unknown MBR on /dev/sdb

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00000020  07 b8 7f 00 cd 10 31 db  31 c9 ba 4f 18 b8 00 06  |......1.1..O....|
00000030  cd 10 31 d2 b4 02 cd 10  b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72  |..1......A..U..r|
00000040  27 81 fb 55 aa 75 21 f7  c1 01 00 74 1b 66 31 c0  |'..U.u!....t.f1.|
00000050  66 50 6a 22 06 66 50 6a  08 6a 10 89 e6 b4 42 cd  |fPj".fPj.j....B.|
00000060  13 9f 83 c4 10 9e eb 0d  b8 08 02 b9 23 00 ba 80  |............#...|
00000070  00 31 db cd 13 bb 07 00  72 0b 31 f6 8c c0 8e d8  |.1......r.1.....|
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000000a0  cd 16 24 04 74 f2 31 c0  8e d8 b8 34 12 a3 73 04  |..$.t.1....4..s.|
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00000100  01 00 b4 09 cd 10 53 31  db b4 03 cd 10 fe c2 b4  |......S1........|
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00000200


=============================== StdErr Messages ================================

File descriptor 63 (pipe:[93097]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 13547: /bin/bash

[oldfred]

Please use Code Tags if posting longer terminal or text output. Easy to add with Forum's advanced reply and # icon.

But with Boot-Repair better to just post the link to the Summary Report it gives you.

You must have an UEFI setting somewhere:

Error: NVram is locked

Report also only shows sda, no NVMe drive.
Either needs firmware update or settings in UEFI to be seen.

[flexbriggs]

Hey @oldfred sorry about that. This is my first post here. I will use Code tags next time.

In the MSI Bios, the boot mode is "UEFI". And the reason the report only shows SDA is because I took out the NVME's and have been
testing with SSD's so I wouldn't harm my good hard drives. The errors I've been getting have been the same between the hard drives, so
I have a hard time imagining it's the hard drive's fault.

What does "NVram is locked" mean? For your information, after building the PC, I inserted one M.2 drive in the computer, installed Windows 10
then removed the M.2 Drive, and inserted my 2nd M.2 Drive and attempted to install Linux on it. After failing I took out that M.2 drive and replaced
it with a SSD for further testing. If there's any more info I can provide, please let me know. Thank you.