I was hoping someone was able to give me a rough order in how to go about achieving my end goal.
I have: a new build with an unformatted Samsung 970 EVO PLUS NVMe M.2 SSD - I've heard there are some issues with M.2 SSD's, I'm having some.
I want: a grub multi boot system with AP-Linux, SteamOS (for my Brother, I'm not big on games), and a I was hoping for a suggestion for a Media Centre Distro as a primary OS (LinHES seems to be the only active one, I'm not sure)
I've tried a few live USB's and I can't get anything to install, AP-Linux just goes to ROOTFS and I can't fdisk anything. LinHES runs but I can't select any drive to install to, GeeXBOX runs but has some odd screen reactions to any key press.
I'm not sure if it's a UEFI thing, a motherboard settings/Firmware thing, or an OS thing.
To show I've been thinking about it, my current plan for my next attempt is to learn about GParted, it looks like some sort of bootable disk management tool, either that or ubuntu might allow me to update the motherboard firmware and set up the SSD.
after that, I'm not sure how to go about GRUB, do I install it First? Second? Last?
I'd be grateful for some direction.
thanks.
I have: a new build with an unformatted Samsung 970 EVO PLUS NVMe M.2 SSD - I've heard there are some issues with M.2 SSD's, I'm having some.
I want: a grub multi boot system with AP-Linux, SteamOS (for my Brother, I'm not big on games), and a I was hoping for a suggestion for a Media Centre Distro as a primary OS (LinHES seems to be the only active one, I'm not sure)
I've tried a few live USB's and I can't get anything to install, AP-Linux just goes to ROOTFS and I can't fdisk anything. LinHES runs but I can't select any drive to install to, GeeXBOX runs but has some odd screen reactions to any key press.
I'm not sure if it's a UEFI thing, a motherboard settings/Firmware thing, or an OS thing.
To show I've been thinking about it, my current plan for my next attempt is to learn about GParted, it looks like some sort of bootable disk management tool, either that or ubuntu might allow me to update the motherboard firmware and set up the SSD.
after that, I'm not sure how to go about GRUB, do I install it First? Second? Last?
I'd be grateful for some direction.
thanks.
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