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Boot Ubuntu

20190312 A USB stick with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS can be connected via the provided USB-C to USB-A connector. On booting while tapping F12 the BIOS boot menu is displayed and offers, in addition to Windows Boot Manager, an option to boot from UEFI: SCSI DISK 1.00. Choosing this latter option will boot into the live Ubuntu session running from the USB. Clicking on the Install Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS on the desktop begins the installation.

Installation

20190312 For installation choose English, keyboard as English (US), Wi-Fi to Connect to this network, a Normal installation, choose to Download updates while installing Ubuntu and to Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware and additional media formats which requires configuring Secure Boot with a password to be used on next reboot as a simple security check. Choose to Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager to install Ubuntu on partition #7 of /dev/nvme0n1 as ext4. Choose your time zone and provide personal information and wait for the installation to complete. Then reboot. On reboot you can register the MUK keys with Secure Boot using the password created above.

Encryption

20190312 Encrypting the home directory provides some comfort if the computer is lost or stolen. This is an option at installation, but can also be done after installation as described in Section 79.7.

Upgrade 18.04 to 19.04

20191026 After sitting on 18.04 LTS for a while the decision was made to upgrade to the latest release 19.10. Using the graphical update manager the release option was changed from LTS and an upgrade to 19.04 was offered and proceeded with. After the reboot the boot process failed with cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device /swapfile.... Not a good sign. The boot process reverts to initramfs prompt. Typing exit resumes the boot process which is then successful. Various attempts to fix have not succeeded yet.

Upgrade 19.04 to 19.10

20191026 Then upgrade to 19.10, the latest release. The problem with the encrypted swap continued, but worse. On exit from initramfs it then noted the same message and had to wait for that to time out. The following exit worked.

A solution was found to uninstall cryptsetup-initramfs (version 2:2.2.0-3ubuntu1). Also removed the crypt entries from /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab.


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