Kubuntu on M2 PCIe disk?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 09:24:25AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:52:49PM -0700, rikona wrote:
> > It's upgrade time, from 16.04... Considering putting a new install of
> > Kubuntu on a new M2 PCIe disk to improve performance a bit [same old
> > box otherwise]. Would this be a normal UEFI large-disk install, as on a
> > hard disk, or is there more to it? Any problems, issues, etc? Any
> > interaction specific to just Kubuntu with a new M2 PCIe disk, or does
> > the desktop not make any difference? Anyone actually done this? Hoping
> > for just a plain vanilla install, but saw several adverse online
> > comments re Ubuntu on M2 PCIes...
> > 
> I added a PCIe disk to my desktop system recently and installed 20.04
> on it.  Once I was through the issues of getting the PCIe disk visible
> to the OS at boot time there was no problem at all getting Linux
> installed on it.
> 
> I did have quite a few conversations with the very helpful denizens of
> the help-grub at gnu.org mailing list getting the boot side of things
> sorted.
> 
Ah, it's coming back to me now! 

The major issue I had was that the PCIe disk *wasn't* recognised by
the BIOS so I had to configure things so that the system still booted
of (one of) the SATA disks but the new OS was installed on the PCIe
disk.

-- 
Chris Green