11-23-2015, 11:04 AM
Just to add to this, and I think it's relevant... I have spent hours trying to get LL installed on a new Samsung SM951 for a friends NUC, still no luck in getting it to boot.
I was able to get Win7 installed, by installing it to a regular drive, installing 2 MS hotfixes, and then cloning it to the SM951.
I suspect this is to cater for the millions of business users who want to stay on Win7, businesses generally image from a "Gold Master" which they can have added the hotfixes to.
So how is this relevant..??
I have just found this statement for the SM951:
So basically to use this Hardware you must be using a "UEFI" compliant BIOS, and OS.
They are "forcing" me(my friend) to take a path that I would not want to go down, out of principal.
So unless there is an equivalent "Linux Hotfix"
My friends got a choice, Go down the UEFI path, or get a lower spec M.2 SATA drive.
Anyway, hope this makes sense...
I was able to get Win7 installed, by installing it to a regular drive, installing 2 MS hotfixes, and then cloning it to the SM951.
I suspect this is to cater for the millions of business users who want to stay on Win7, businesses generally image from a "Gold Master" which they can have added the hotfixes to.
So how is this relevant..??
I have just found this statement for the SM951:
Quote:The UEFI drivers for this M.2 PCIE SSD are built onto it and must be read/loaded into your UEFI BIOS first
So basically to use this Hardware you must be using a "UEFI" compliant BIOS, and OS.
They are "forcing" me(my friend) to take a path that I would not want to go down, out of principal.
So unless there is an equivalent "Linux Hotfix"
My friends got a choice, Go down the UEFI path, or get a lower spec M.2 SATA drive.
Anyway, hope this makes sense...
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Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks

Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)